Re: proced.el -- operate on processes like dired

[Óscar Fuentes]

"Roland Winkler" <address@hidden> writes:

>> Is 'proced' supposed to work on M$ platform? I decided to give it a
>> try and I do not see any output other than the column header (no
>> process listings). I am using Emacs from HEAD on WXP built with
>> MinGW.
>
> I do not know anything about this platform. Does it give you
> something like ps(1) to list system processes?

Yes, if you have Cygwin installed.

By default, Cygwin's ps outputs only Cygwin processes (i.e., those that
depend on cygwin1.dll). If you want all processes, you need to pass -W.

This is part of the output of ps -a -W :

      PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
        8       0       0          8    ?    0 21:24:48 *** unknown ***
      196       0       0        196    ?    0   May  7 
\SystemRoot\System32\smss.exe
      240       0       0        240    ?    0   May  7 
\??\E:\WIN2K\system32\winlogon.exe
      268       0       0        268    ?    0   May  7 
E:\WIN2K\system32\services.exe
      280       0       0        280    ?    0   May  7 
E:\WIN2K\system32\lsass.exe
      480       0       0        480    ?    0   May  7 
E:\WIN2K\system32\svchost.exe
      516       0       0        516    ?    0   May  7 
E:\WIN2K\system32\spoolsv.exe
      556       0       0        556    ?    0   May  7 
T:\apache\Apache2\bin\Apache.exe
     2228       0       0       2228    ?    0   May  7 E:\WIN2K\Explorer.EXE
     2596       0       0       2596    ?    0   May  7 
T:\emacscvs\bin1\bin\emacs.exe
     2612       0       0       2612    ?    0   May  9 
k:\apps\aspell\bin\aspell.exe
     2768       0       0       2768    ?    0   May 10 
E:\WIN2K\system32\cmd.exe
     2904       1    2904       2904    0  500   May 10 /usr/bin/bash
     2728       1    2728       2728    ?   18   May 10 /usr/bin/cygrunsrv
     1664    2728    1664       2800    ?   18   May 10 /usr/sbin/sshd
     2972    2904    2972       2764    0  500 19:42:14 /usr/bin/ps

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Oscar