vsize from within C++ (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Glasgow, Steven Mr CIV USA TRADOC]

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BTW, it worked and had the added feature of being EXTREMELY simple.

Thanks again,
Steve

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Steve wrote:
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of m.roth at 5-cent.us
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 8:17 AM
>> Steve wrote:
>>
>>> Is it possible for a process to obtain information about itself 
>>> (such as that provided by "top"), specifically vsize?
>
>> Sure. I never needed it, but a brief google for vsize linux c 
>> programming gets
>
>> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/669438/how-to-get-memory-usage-at
>> -run-time-in-c>

>
> Thanks Mark!  I was working with /proc/self/stat and getting to the 
> vSize value using system() and an awk command, but was having trouble 
> getting the value back into a variable in my program...always getting 
> 0 which was the value passed back from system() ... 0 = success.

Right - system, either in awk or perl, only returns the status of the
command, and I'm not aware of any way to actually get info from it,
other than the *really* ugly way of <awkcmd> > /tmp/awkcmd.output;
open/read /tmp/awkcmd.output.
>
> I'll give this a try.  My Google searches didn't come up with anything

> this good.

You're welcome, Searches are their own art form - that's why I gave the
terms I used for the search, so as to give you *how* I found this. I
usually work my way down the tree: linux (top) vmsize (what I want to
find) c programming (what form I need the answer in).

     mark

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