A part of [Concurrency concepts].

Under Unix at least, processes are the data construct used by the heart
of the operating system when invoking a particular program.

In Tcl, [exec] and ''[open] |...'' are your friends for starting helper processes.




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To obtain a ps(1)-like list of Windows processes, use pslist from
[pstools].  [[tlist?]]

Alternatively, use get_process_ids [http://twapi.magicsplat.com/process.html#get_process_ids] from the [TWAPI] package.
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To obtain a ps(1)-like list of '''''Solaris or Linux''''' processes, use '''procfs.tcl''' from http://inferno.slug.org/tarballs/procfs.tcl

[lavaps]

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In [Alpha], '''processes''' is a command that returns (drumroll) a list of descriptions of running processes (well, rather applications). Excerpt from `join [[processes]] \n`:
 loginwindow lgnw APPL 5793 0000000000020001 /System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow
 Dock dock APPL 8123 0000000000060001 /System/Library/CoreServices/Dock.app/Contents/MacOS/Dock
 SystemUIServer syui APPL 8189 0000000000080001 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/MacOS/SystemUIServer
 Finder MACS FNDR 8190 00000000000a0001 /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder
 iTunesHelper ithp APPL 9456 00000000000c0001 /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/iTunesHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper
 iCalAlarmScheduler ???? APPL 9466 00000000000e0001 /Applications/iCal.app/Contents/Resources/iCalAlarmScheduler.app/Contents/MacOS/iCalAlarmScheduler
 {Acrobat Reader 5.0} CARO APPL 102108211 0000000006e40001 {/Applications/Acrobat Reader 5.0/Contents/MacOS/Acrobat Reader 5.0}

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