My app is made available in App Store and hence cannot use private api's.
Would like to know that whether the call to sysctl to get the list of background process is a private api call? Below is the code snipper to get the list of running process.
Thanks in advance.
- (NSArray *)runningProcesses
{
int mib[4] = {CTL_KERN, KERN_PROC, KERN_PROC_ALL, 0};
size_t miblen = 4;
size_t size;
int st = sysctl(mib, miblen, NULL, &size, NULL, 0);
struct kinfo_proc *process = NULL;
struct kinfo_proc *newprocess = NULL;
do {
size += size / 10;
newprocess = realloc(process, size);
if (!newprocess) {
if (process) {
free(process);
}
return nil;
}
process = newprocess;
st = sysctl(mib, miblen, process, &size, NULL, 0);
} while (st == -1 && errno == ENOMEM);
if (st == 0) {
if (size % sizeof(struct kinfo_proc) == 0) {
int nprocess = size / sizeof(struct kinfo_proc);
if (nprocess) {
NSMutableArray * array = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
for (int i = nprocess - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
NSString *processID = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%d", process[i].kp_proc.p_pid];
NSString *processName = [[NSString alloc] initWithFormat:@"%s", process[i].kp_proc.p_comm];
NSDictionary *dict = [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithObjects:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:processID, processName, nil]
forKeys:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"ProcessID", @"ProcessName", nil]];
[processID release];
[processName release];
[array addObject:dict];
[dict release];
}
free(process);
return array;
}
}
}
return nil;
}
