Whenever you start a new process in Linux it creates a file in /proc/ folder with the same name as that of the process id of the process. In that folder, there is a file named "status" which has all the details of the process. We can get those
Process Information Through shell as follows:
cat /proc/1/status
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As can be seen, it displays most of the information about the process.
Note:, In this case, the process id is 1, it may be changed as per need.
You can get the
System Information through the shell. The basic system information is stored in a file named os-release in /etc/ folder.
cat /etc/os-release
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You can also get the
System Information using C programming. The below code is used to get the details of the system. In this code,
utsname maintains a structure that has the details of the system like sysname nodename, release, version, etc.
On execution the above code will give the following output:
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To get Process Information using C programming, use the below code. In this code, we execute the Linux command through a c program to get the details of the process.
On execution the above code will give the following output:
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