Description
This issue is to discuss how we can implement System.Diagnostics.Process on FreeBSD which does not have procfs by enabled by default as it should be considered deprecated.
Reference Material
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Implement basic System.Diagnostics.Process.Modules support on Linux dotnet/corefx#2188
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The System.Diagnostics.Process specification on MSDN.
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The FreeBSD process information implementation within Mono (LGPL)
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The FreeBSD process information implementation within IO.JS (MIT)
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https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?procstat and https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?sysctl(3)
KERN_PROC Return selected information about specific running processes. For the following names, an array of struct kinfo_proc structures is returned, whose size depends on the current number of such objects in the system. Third level name Fourth level is: KERN_PROC_ALL None KERN_PROC_PID A process ID KERN_PROC_PGRP A process group KERN_PROC_TTY A tty device KERN_PROC_UID A user ID KERN_PROC_RUID A real user ID If the third level name is KERN_PROC_ARGS then the command line argument array is returned in a flattened form, i.e., zero-termi- nated arguments follow each other. The total size of array is returned. It is also possible for a process to set its own process title this way. If the third level name is KERN_PROC_PATHNAME, the path of the process' text file is stored. For KERN_PROC_PATHNAME, a process ID of -1 implies the current process. Third level name Fourth level is: KERN_PROC_ARGS A process ID KERN_PROC_PATHNAME A process ID