Can we have filtered processes?

[jasonwilliams]

Hey there!

This is a great idea as a workaround for the vadimcn/codelldb#317 issue. Sadly large applications like Chromium do spawn a lot of processes and end up crashing the whole thing. I wonder though, if its possible to have a filter of some sort, where it can only connect to a process that passes a glob or something. This would reduce the amount of process it connects to, and only connects to ones I care about.

I don't know if the underlying ps-tree exposes the process name, so it may be difficult to implement if it doesn't.

[thebestnom]

It does have a name, and also I checked and psNode have a better api and can filter based on a lot of things including parent process so maybe replacing ps-tree with ps-node is the way to go

[jasonwilliams]

psNode lets you look up a process, I don’t know if it gives you all child processes from a parent though?

[thebestnom]

https://github.com/neekey/ps/blob/b022882a0cc9344c7c66c47301b27910235078e3/lib/index.js#L151

[jasonwilliams]

Awesome!