process-util: add helper get_process_threads()

Let's add a proper helper for querying the number of threads in a
process.

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/basic/process-util.c b/src/basic/process-util.c
index b6bf83c2cf..be82d0ffe7 100644
--- a/src/basic/process-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/process-util.c
@@ -1549,6 +1549,31 @@ _noreturn_ void freeze(void) {
                 pause();
 }
 
+int get_process_threads(pid_t pid) {
+        _cleanup_free_ char *t = NULL;
+        const char *p;
+        int n, r;
+
+        if (pid < 0)
+                return -EINVAL;
+
+        p = procfs_file_alloca(pid, "status");
+
+        r = get_proc_field(p, "Threads", WHITESPACE, &t);
+        if (r == -ENOENT)
+                return proc_mounted() == 0 ? -ENOSYS : -ESRCH;
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+
+        r = safe_atoi(t, &n);
+        if (r < 0)
+                return r;
+        if (n < 0)
+                return -EINVAL;
+
+        return n;
+}
+
 static const char *const sigchld_code_table[] = {
         [CLD_EXITED] = "exited",
         [CLD_KILLED] = "killed",