Any faster and more efficient way to repeatedlyaccess /proc/*

[mchu]

Hi,

Is there a faster way to access "/proc/*" other than open it as a file and reading/parsing contents? e.g. fopen("/proc/stat", "r");

In BSD, there is the kvm method of access, which is relatively fast (light weight)

In Linux, if I have a daemon that keeps track of these statistics, it's a hell way to manage.

Imagine, having to probe the stat of each process?

Thanks,
Michael
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