Process List Library for Go 
go-ps is a library for Go that implements OS-specific APIs to list and
manipulate processes in a platform-safe way. The library can find and
list processes on Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows.
If you're new to Go, this library has a good amount of advanced Go educational
value as well. It uses some advanced features of Go: build tags, accessing
DLL methods for Windows, cgo for Darwin, etc.
How it works:
- Darwin uses the
sysctlsyscall to retrieve the process table. - Unix uses the procfs at
/procto inspect the process tree. - Windows uses the Windows API, and methods such as
CreateToolhelp32Snapshotto get a point-in-time snapshot of
the process table.
Installation
Install using standard go get:
$ go get github.com/mitchellh/go-ps
...
TODO
Want to contribute? Here is a short TODO list of things that aren't
implemented for this library that would be nice:
- FreeBSD support
- Plan9 support