Would it help to examine kernel data structures? Not everything the kernel does is directly accessible by userspace frameworks, but within certain limits mostly having to do with security you can read many kernel data structures.
I don't personally know which ones would help you however this kind of thing is commonly done. Michael David Crawford, Consulting Software Engineer mdcrawf...@gmail.com http://www.warplife.com/mdc/ Available for Software Development in the Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area. On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Kevin Meaney <k...@yvs.eu.com> wrote: > Apologies. Having just reread that forum post rather than working from what I > remembered it is about the relationship between the processes rather than > process names. > > You might still we'll be in luck. > > Kevin > > Sent from my iPad > >> On 13 Feb 2015, at 21:05, Andrew Keller <and...@kellerfarm.com> wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> I'm not sure if this is the correct list, but I figure I'll start somewhere. >> >> I'm writing a program that collects activity statistics on other running >> programs (in particular, network usage statistics). I have already >> successfully harvested the statistics I want, organized by the PID and name >> of the process, however I'd like to do a better job communicating this >> information to the user. I am intrigued by Mac OS 10.10's ability to report >> "Apps using significant energy"; it seems to have the ability to get a >> commonly understood human-readable program name, even when the process in >> question is a helper app with a different name. Is this ability replicable >> in third party applications? >> >> Thanks, >> - Andrew Keller >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >> >> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >> >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/ktam%40yvs.eu.com >> >> This email sent to k...@yvs.eu.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/mdcrawford%40gmail.com > > This email sent to mdcrawf...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
