Description Jason W. Bacon 2020-04-03 15:41:23 UTC

I think a process count of 0 in procstat_getprocs() is not necessarily an error and this should not trigger a message to stderr.

The code below demonstrates the issue, assuming 1000 is not part of a process group.  Tweak the value if necessary.

If procstat_getprocs() does not find any processes in the group, it returns 0 via the *count argument as expected, but also prints a warning to stderr using warnx():

kinfo_proc structure size mismatch (len = 0)

The warnx() call can be found in /usr/src/lib/libprocstat/libprocstat.c.

It seems to be that the action to be taken when count == 0 should be left to the caller.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sysexits.h>
#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/queue.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/user.h>
#include <sys/sysctl.h>
#include <libprocstat.h>

int     main(int argc,char *argv[])

{
    unsigned            pgid = 1000,
			pid_count;
    struct procstat     *proc_info;
    struct kinfo_proc   *proc_list;
    // FILE                *procstat_err;
    
    proc_info = procstat_open_sysctl();
    
    // Silence warnx()
    // procstat_err = fopen("/dev/null", "w+");
    // err_set_file(procstat_err);
    
    proc_list = procstat_getprocs(proc_info, KERN_PROC_PGRP, pgid,
				    (unsigned *)&pid_count);
    // fclose(procstat_err);
    procstat_freeprocs(proc_info, proc_list);
    procstat_close(proc_info);

    return EX_OK;
}