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+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2011 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
+ *
+ * procutils.c: General purpose procfs parsing utilities
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU Library Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+ * any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU Library Public License for more details.
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <dirent.h>
+#include <ctype.h>
+
+#include "procutils.h"
+#include "c.h"
+
+/*
+ * @pid: process ID for which we want to obtain the threads group
+ *
+ * Returns: newly allocated tasks structure
+ */
+struct proc_tasks *proc_open_tasks(pid_t pid)
+{
+	struct proc_tasks *tasks;
+	char path[PATH_MAX];
+
+	sprintf(path, "/proc/%d/task/", pid);
+
+	tasks = malloc(sizeof(struct proc_tasks));
+	if (tasks) {
+		tasks->dir = opendir(path);
+		if (tasks->dir)
+			return tasks;
+	}
+
+	free(tasks);
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+/*
+ * @tasks: allocated tasks structure
+ *
+ * Returns: nothing
+ */
+void proc_close_tasks(struct proc_tasks *tasks)
+{
+	if (tasks && tasks->dir)
+		closedir(tasks->dir);
+	free(tasks);
+}
+
+/*
+ * @tasks: allocated task structure
+ * @tid: [output] one of the thread IDs belonging to the thread group
+ *        If when an error occurs, it is set to 0.
+ *
+ * Returns: 0 on success, 1 on end, -1 on failure or no more threads
+ */
+int proc_next_tid(struct proc_tasks *tasks, pid_t *tid)
+{
+	struct dirent *d;
+	char *end;
+
+	if (!tasks || !tid)
+		return -1;
+
+	*tid = 0;
+	errno = 0;
+
+	do {
+		d = readdir(tasks->dir);
+		if (!d)
+			return errno ? -1 : 1;		/* error or end-of-dir */
+
+		if (!isdigit((unsigned char) *d->d_name))
+			continue;
+
+		*tid = (pid_t) strtol(d->d_name, &end, 10);
+		if (errno || d->d_name == end || (end && *end))
+			return -1;
+
+	} while (!*tid);
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+#ifdef TEST_PROGRAM
+
+int main(int argc, char *argv[])
+{
+	pid_t tid, pid;
+	struct proc_tasks *ts;
+
+	if (argc != 2) {
+		fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s <pid>\n", argv[0]);
+		return EXIT_FAILURE;
+	}
+
+	pid = strtol(argv[1], (char **) NULL, 10);
+	printf("PID=%d, TIDs:", pid);
+
+	ts = proc_open_tasks(pid);
+	if (!ts)
+		err(EXIT_FAILURE, "open list of tasks failed");
+
+	while (proc_next_tid(ts, &tid) == 0)
+		printf(" %d", tid);
+
+	printf("\n");
+        proc_close_tasks(ts);
+	return EXIT_SUCCESS;
+}
+#endif /* TEST_PROGRAM */