3 #include <sys/sysctl.h>
10 * copy argc and argv for an existing process identified by `pid'
11 * into suitable storage given in ***argv and *argc.
13 * subsequent calls use the same static area for argv and argc.
15 * returns 0 for failure, in which case argc := 0 and argv := NULL
16 * returns 1 for success
18 Bool
GetCommandForPid(int pid
, char ***argv
, int *argc
)
24 static char *args
= NULL
;
25 static int argmax
= 0;
30 /* the system-wide limit */
31 if (argmax
== 0) { /* it hopefully doesn't change at runtime *g* */
37 count
= sizeof(argmax
);
38 if (sysctl(mib
, 2, &argmax
, &count
, NULL
, 0) == -1)
42 /* if argmax is still 0, something went very seriously wrong */
45 /* space for args; no need to free before returning even on errors */
47 args
= (char *)wmalloc(argmax
);
49 /* get process args */
51 mib
[1] = KERN_PROCARGS2
;
55 if (sysctl(mib
, 3, args
, &count
, NULL
, 0) == -1 || count
== 0)
59 memcpy(argc
, args
, sizeof(*argc
));
62 while (args
[idx
++] != '\0') /* skip execname */
64 while (args
[idx
] == '\0') /* padding too */
66 /* args[idx] is at at begininng of args now */
68 *argv
= (char **)wmalloc(sizeof(char *) * (*argc
+ 1 /* term. null ptr */));
69 (*argv
)[0] = args
+ idx
;
71 /* go through args, set argv[$next] to the beginning of each string */
72 for (i
= 0, j
= 1; i
< count
- idx
/* do not overrun */; i
++) {
73 if (args
[idx
+ i
] != '\0')
75 if (args
[idx
+ i
] == '\0')
76 (*argv
)[j
++] = &args
[idx
+ i
+ 1];
81 /* the list of arguments must be terminated by a null pointer */
85 #else /* !KERN_PROCARGS2 */