Programmatically check if a process is running on Mac

Question

Is there any Carbon/Cocoa/C API available on Macs that I can use to enumerate processes? I\'m looking for something like EnumProcesses on Windows.

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Answer 1

In the overview of the NSRunningApplicationClass, it says:

NSRunningApplication is a class to manipulate and provide information for a single instance of an application. Only user applications are tracked; this does not provide information about every process on the system.

and

To access the list of all running applications, use the runningApplications method in NSWorkspace.

I would suggest taking a look at Workspace Services Programming Topics