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From: "Cliff Hones" <cliff AT aonix DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: System call which gets CPU utilized capacity
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 08:09:28 +0100
Organization: Aonix Europe
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Alex Vinokur wrote
> "Igor Pechtchanski" <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote in message
news:Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 56 DOT 0309100918590 DOT 5235 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu...
> > On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Alex Vinokur wrote:
> >
> > > Is there in CYGWIN any system call which gets CPU utilized capacity at
> > > the present moment?
> >
> [snip]
> > I assume the call is the same as in any other Unix system, since "top"
> > worked for me with almost no porting about a year ago.  You might want
to
> > take a look at the sources for the "procps" package.
> > Igor
> [snip]
>
> But "top" and "ps" are the UNIX (CYGWIN) command line utilities.
> We can't use them in C-program unless with system().
>  I mean platform-specific system call (as the popen() system call) which
> can be directly used in C-program.

Igor is saying that since 'top' can find the CPU capacity, you just need to
look at the source of top (in procps) to find out how to do it.

-- Cliff


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