Is there anything like /proc for windows

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I'm Curious about 2 things,

What is the closest equivalent to /proc that ships with windows
Are there any products which add a proc like filesystem to windows?

https://github.com/microsoft/ProjFS-Managed-API – Chris Jul 02 '19 at 18:43 — Chris, Jul 02 '19 at 18:43

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 12 '13 at 15:42

As far as I know, there isn't anything equivalent to /proc in Windows. While there are facilities for getting similar information via Win32_Process (limited in comparison to /proc, e.g. you won't be able to get process memory maps this way) in WMI, windbg or Win32 APIs, Windows does not record this data onto files.

CharlesB · Answer 2 · 2011-04-27T10:24:43.993

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Task manager
Cygwin, giving Windows a Linux environment, certainly allows a Windows program to use /proc.

edited Apr 27 '11 at 10:24

answered Apr 27 '11 at 09:56

CharlesB

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did't think of cygwin. It notes that it doesn't support everything but /proc/registry looks really cool – Roman A. Taycher Apr 27 '11 at 10:32
To be more precise, cygwin does not bring linux environment, but POSIX.However, +1 – rkosegi Apr 15 '13 at 13:51
What's the underlying Windows method used to do something like `/proc/stat`? – Pacerier Nov 01 '14 at 13:40
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@rkosegi : "/proc" isn't POSIX. – Astara Nov 24 '15 at 20:53

score 3 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 23 '19 at 18:35

It would help if you explained what your final goal is. What are you trying to do? For managing processes on windows you have the following options:

Windows ships with Task Manager (taskmgr.exe)
A better more versatile alternative is a tool called Process Explorer
You also have the command line utility called tasklist.exe which can perform many tasks.
Also there are other ways to interact with processes, including winapi, WMI and so on.

Is there anything like /proc for windows

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