procps/doc/procps_pids_select.3
Craig Small 2598e9f2ce documentation: Update pids manual pages
Updated the full suite of manual pages for the procps_pids_*
functions. The only one missing is procps_pids_get which
may not be required.
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.TH PROCPS_PIDS_select 3 2017-01-05 "libproc-2"
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.SH NAME
procps_pids_select \- Harvest process information that matches PID or UID
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <proc/procps.h>
.sp
.BI "struct pids_fetch * procps_pids_select(struct pids_info *" info ", unsigned *" these ", int "numthese ", enum pids_select_type " which ");"
.sp
Link with \fI\-lprocps\fP.
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBprocps_pids_select()\fR provides the same functionality as
\fBprocps_pids_reap()\fR except it will only fetch information for the
processes that have the process ID (PID) or User ID (UID) found in the
array \fIthese\fR.
\fIthese\fR is an array of process IDs (PIDs) or User IDs that the
function will use to match against.
\fInumthese\fR the length of the \fIthese\fR array.
The \fIwhich\fR parameter tells the funtion what type of information is
contained in \fIthese\fR and can be either \fBPIDS_SELECT_PID\fR if
\fIthese\fR is an array of PIDs or \fBPIDS_SELECT_UID\fR if \fIthese\fR
is an array of UIDs.
The info structure first needs to be initialised by
.BR procps_pids_new (3).
if \fBprocps_pids_select()\fR returns successfully, a program can
then iterate through a loop using the accessor methods described in
.BR libproc (3).
.SH RETURN VALUE
\fBprocps_pids_select()\fR returns a pointer to struct pids_fetch
on success and NULL on failure.
.SH VERSIONS
\fBprocps_pids_select()\fR first appeared in libproc-2 version 0.0.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR libproc (3),
.BR procps_pids_new (3),
.BR procps_pids_reap (3),
.BR procps_pids_unref (3),
.BR proc (5).