I'm trying to get a list of all running Application Bundles. GUI applications that the user has started, like the Dock is showing, or Activity Monitor (it shows an icon next to certain processes). I found that I could use sysctl()
with KERN_PROC_ALL
to get a list of all running processes, but that won't tell me which application bundle they are from. Applications like Minecraft just show up as java
and that's not very useful.
I did find that the process group name in activity monitor shows roughly what I want to know:
(source: gdries.nl)
The implementation language is not important. Currently working in C and go, but if some other environment turns out to be required that's not a problem. All I want to do is detect which applications the user has running so I can log the time that each has been used. (Parental Controls does something similar but logs it in plist files that I can't parse)