API to getting the system information in ubuntu

naveenisback · 09-21-2009, 06:31 AM

Hi,

OS:UBUNTU

I wanna write a program in which i have to display system information lik e os info, network info, cpuinfo, battery info.. can u tell me the apis to get these information (APIs only than reading from file system) except sysinfo(). thanks inadvance..

DrLove73 · 09-21-2009, 08:03 AM

You should post in what programming language you want to write.

Also look at this: http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/123871, and as far as I remember, KDE has system information tool. Dig in into their source if you like to learn more about this.

But most information you will be able to get from /proc file's using "cat" command, not by viewing them in editors!. To get a list of audio cards in system, type "cat /proc/asound/cards" or "cat /proc/partitions" to get list of partitions.

naveenisback · 09-21-2009, 08:24 AM

sorry!! I wanna write in c++ using g++ compiler.
OS: ubuntu
language:c++

blues1207 · 09-23-2009, 04:49 AM

invoke system() to execute command