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Comment by BoppreH

Cool project, I wish we had more GUIs for these OS functions. How was your experience with GTK4 and Rust?

And it's a bit sad that in the year of our lord 2025, the best way to get such fundamental information is by using regexes to parse a table[1], generated by a 6000-line C program[2], which is verified by (I hope I'm wrong!) a tiny test suite[3]. OSQuery[4] is also pretty cool, but it builds upon this fragile stack.

That's something I miss from Windows, at least PowerShell has built-in commands that give you structured output.

[1] https://github.com/grigio/network-monitor/blob/9dc470553bfdd...

[2] https://github.com/iproute2/iproute2/blob/main/misc/ss.c

[3] https://github.com/iproute2/iproute2/blob/main/testsuite/tes...

[4] https://osquery.io/

parent BoppreH 11 months ago

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