counting messages

[Cameron Smith]

how do i count messages in C.like processes,applications and stuff.what is the code for that?

please.

[wowbag1]

Hi,
I think you will need to be a little clearer on what you are trying to do.
For me you do anyway!

[wje_lf]

Agreed. I haven't the foggiest notion what you're trying to do:

processes,applications and stuff

may as well have been:

processes, unicorns, and stuff

But let's assume that you're trying to count the number of processes, and you're coding in C. Set a variable of type long to zero. Then open the directory /proc. Look at every entry in that directory whose name begins with a decimal digit. For each such entry, increase by one the value of the variable I just mentioned above. When you're at the end of the directory, you'll have a count of the number of processes on the system.

I'm guessing that this is not what you want, but this guess might give you a clue as to tell us what you want to do.