1# Process List Library for Go 2 3[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/keybase/go-ps.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/keybase/go-ps) 4[![Build Status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/github/keybase/go-ps?branch=master&svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/keybase/go-ps) 5[![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/github/keybase/go-ps/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://coveralls.io/github/keybase/go-ps?branch=master) 6[![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/keybase/go-ps?status.svg)](https://godoc.org/github.com/keybase/go-ps) 7 8 9go-ps is a library for Go that implements OS-specific APIs to list and 10manipulate processes in a platform-safe way. The library can find and 11list processes on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. 12 13If you're new to Go, this library has a good amount of advanced Go educational 14value as well. It uses some advanced features of Go: build tags, accessing 15DLL methods for Windows, cgo for Darwin, etc. 16 17How it works: 18 19 * **Darwin** uses `sysctl` and `proc_listpids` (for the path) to retrieve the process table, via cgo. 20 * **Unix** uses the procfs at `/proc` to inspect the process tree. 21 * **Windows** uses the Windows API, and methods such as 22 `CreateToolhelp32Snapshot` to get a point-in-time snapshot of 23 the process table. 24 25## Installation 26 27Install using standard `go get`: 28 29``` 30$ go get github.com/keybase/go-ps 31``` 32