Crate procfs

This crate provides to an interface into the linux procfs filesystem, usually mounted at /proc.

This is a pseudo-filesystem which is available on most every linux system and provides an interface to kernel data structures.

Kernel support

Not all fields/data are available in each kernel. Some fields were added in specific kernel releases, and other fields are only present in certain kernel configuration options are enabled. These are represented as Option fields in this crate.

This crate aims to support all 2.6 kernels (and newer).

Documentation

In almost all cases, the documentation is taken from the proc.5 manual page. This means that sometimes the style of writing is not very “rusty”, or may do things like reference related files (instead of referencing related structs). Contributions to improve this are welcome.

Panicing

While previous versions of the library could panic, this current version aims to be panic-free in a many situations as possible. Whenever the procfs crate encounters a bug in its own parsing code, it will return an InternalError error. This should be considered a bug and should be reported. If you encounter a panic, please report that as well.

Cargo features

The following cargo features are available:

• chrono – Default. Optional. This feature enables a few methods that return values as DateTime objects.
• backtrace – Optional. This feature lets you get a stack trace whenever an InternalError is raised.

Examples

Examples can be found in the various modules shown below.

Re-exports

pub use crate::sys::kernel::Version as KernelVersion;

Modules

net	Information about the networking layer.
process	Functions and structs related to process information
sys	Sysctl is a means of configuring certain aspects of the kernel at run-time, and the /proc/sys/ directory is there so that you don’t even need special tools to do it!

Structs

CGroupController	Container group controller information.
CpuInfo	Represents the data from /proc/cpuinfo.
CpuPressure	CPU pressure information
CpuTime	The amount of time, measured in seconds, the CPU has been in specific states
DiskStat	Disk IO stat information
InternalError	An internal error in the procfs crate
IoPressure	IO pressure information
KernelModule
KernelStats	Kernel/system statistics, from /proc/stat
LoadAverage	Load average figures.
Meminfo	This struct reports statistics about memory usage on the system, based on the /proc/meminfo file.
MemoryPressure	Memory pressure information
PressureRecord	Pressure stall information for either CPU, memory, or IO.
ProcessCgroup	Information about a process cgroup

Enums

ConfigSetting	Possible values for a kernel config option
ProcError	The various error conditions in the procfs crate.

Functions

boot_time	The boottime of the system, as a DateTime object.
boot_time_secs	The boottime of the system, in seconds since the epoch
cgroups	Information about the cgroup controllers that are compiled into the kernel
cpu_pressure	Deprecated Get CPU pressure information
cpuinfo	Deprecated Get CPU info, from /proc/cpuinfo
diskstats	Get disk IO stat info from /proc/diskstats
io_pressure	Deprecated Get IO pressure information
kernel_config	Returns a configuration options used to build the currently running kernel
memory_pressure	Deprecated Get memory pressure information
modules	Get a list of loaded kernel modules
page_size	Memory page size, in bytes.
ticks_per_second	Return the number of ticks per second.
vmstat	Get various vritual memory statistics

Type Definitions

ProcResult

The main error type for the procfs crate.