Syncronous ps tool for node.js

This library is written to be executed syncronously. As such, it is not recommended to be used in for web servers where blocking processes would be a problem.

npm install ps-sync

var ps = require('ps-sync')

var psRecs = ps.query({pid: <pid(s)>})

where: <pid(s)> is a single pid or an array of multiple pids

psRecs will contain an object with pid as the key and an object containing process info for the given pid.

If pid is not found you will get back ps.PID_NOT_FOUND which looks like '(pid_not_found)'. You can easily test for pid like: if(psRecs[pid]==ps.PID_NOT_FOUND){ // handle accordingly } else { // pid found, you should have an object with data. }

Data returned if pid is found:

Field	Description
pid	Process Id
ppid	Parent Process Id
command	Executable name
commandPath	Full path to executable
args	Command arguments