Re: Hiding Programs

[John Crawford <soma@clark.net>]

> From: "Von R. Colborn" <selah-vc@srv.net>
> Subject: Re: Hiding Programs
> 
> There are many, many reasons why an application should not show up in the
> task manager. They are usually system services. Can you see the TCP
> communications or the system print spooler in the task manager. Any program
> that runs in the background (i.e. does not have to directly interface with
> the user)  is a candidate for such "invisibility". One only needs to run any
> number of windows utilities to see that there are already a lot of them on a
> freshly installed W95/NT OS.

Good point, from a Microsoft/Windows 95 point of view. I can see why
the OS designers might make something invisible, although personally,
I think I *should* be able to see the TCP stack and print scheduler.
I'm a Unix admin, and as such, *can* see everything running on my
system, right down to the FTP daemon that someone just spawned.

In fact, let me turn around the original question - is there any
way to *get* information about all running (or sleeping) processes?
My Win32 API book shows lots of "system" calls, which mostly give
stuff about the computer name, etc. Nothing really useful for
process control. I would like to have a monitor program that shows
me everything.

John Crawford. soma@clark.net