Did you ever wonder where the hell all the CON tasks come from? Yes? Now you easily can find out with:


TaskTree 1.3 for MorphOS

TaskTree is an informative command line utility printing out a current list of tasks in a hierarchic structure showing possible parent-child relations. That way it is possible to see which task launched another.



Sample Output

   #    PID  Address     Taskname
----  -----  ----------  ------------------------------------
   1      2  0x222ECF08  Workbench?[MOSSYS:Ambient/Ambient]
   2   1109  0x21DF4B98  |- MUI-ImageFlusher
   3   1110  0x21DE9148  |- Ambient Thread 1     
   4   1111  0x21DEA380  |- Ambient Thread 2     
   5      7  0x25E9AEB0  |  |- Shell Process?[TaskTree]
   6      6  0x237589E0  |  |  |- CygnusEd ver. 3.5+?[work:edit/ced/CED.elf]
   7   2143  0x25684140  |  |  |  |- CON
   8   2144  0x23FC5C18  |  |  |  +- CygnusEd mouse blanker
   9   1263  0x2523C8B0  |  |  +- MUICON
  10   1264  0x2523E8E8  |  |     +- ? MUI Console Server ?
  11   1142  0x2339C610  |  |- AmIRC.morphos
  12   1143  0x2332CF68  |  |  |- Vapor Toolkit Lib Rexx Reply Handler
  13   1144  0x23488DB8  |  |  |- sound.datatype player 1
  14   1145  0x234A8CE0  |  |  |- sound.datatype player 2
  15   1146  0x234D2AC0  |  |  |- sound.datatype player 3
  16   1147  0x234F2E38  |  |  |- sound.datatype player 4
  17   1148  0x2351EFA0  |  |  +- AmIPlug_Landru
  18   1162  0x2462EF40  |  |- IBrowse
  19   1504  0x25CB58C8  |  +- YAM
  20   1505  0x25AC5D70  |     +- CON
  21   1113  0x22E8FCA0  |- Ambient Thread 3     
  22   1119  0x2300C928  |  |- statline
  23   1120  0x23008940  |  |  +- CON
  24   1121  0x2300E570  |  |- CPU Monitor
  25   1122  0x23074A00  |  |  +- CON
  26   1123  0x230FD7C0  |  |- NoCapsLock
  27   1124  0x23139298  |  |- Deluxe
  28   1125  0x2317BA08  |  |  +- CON
  29   1126  0x23159498  |  |- iconx
  30      1  0x231C3470  |  |  |- Background CLI?[smbfs '//carbuncle/storage']
  31   1127  0x230EF948  |  |  +- CON
  32   1128  0x2315F138  |  |- iconx
  33      4  0x231C4638  |  |  |- Background CLI?[smbfs '//carbuncle/tokai']
  34   1129  0x2315AD98  |  |  +- CON
  35   1133  0x231645C8  |  |- ToolManager Handler
  36   1234  0x24057A70  |  |  |- aminetradio
  37   1235  0x23FE8D38  |  |  |  |- CON
  38   1236  0x25317F20  |  |  |  |- CON
  39   1237  0x244DA030  |  |  |  |- ANRDECODER.1
  40   2177  0x27489288  |  |  |  |  |- CON
  41   2178  0x23EA2608  |  |  |  |  +- ahi.device Unit Process
  42   2180  0x230047E0  |  |  |  |     +- pegasos.audio
  43   1238  0x23B6A900  |  |  |  +- CON
  44   1281  0x25EF7900  |  |  |- filer
  45   2161  0x26F7D988  |  |  +- CygnusEd ver. 3.5+
  46   2162  0x26F6E3F8  |  |     |- CON
  47   2163  0x23ED3468  |  |     +- CygnusEd mouse blanker
  48   1134  0x231AE7B0  |  |- iconx
  49      5  0x23145990  |  |  |- Background CLI?[smbfs '//carbuncle/backup']
  50   1135  0x232250B0  |  |  +- CON
  51   1137  0x231FC790  |  +- PegasosMixer
  52   1114  0x22E98F30  |- Ambient Thread 4     
  53   1115  0x22F3BD40  |- Ambient Thread 5     
  54   1116  0x22F45358  |- Ambient Thread 6     
  55   1117  0x22F4E970  +- Ambient Thread 7     
  56      3  0x22123018  Background CLI?[Turboprint:turbo/tp8]
  57   1025  0x20011340  keyboard.device
  58   1026  0x2001B340  ps2.device
  59   1027  0x20042B88  input.device
  60   1058  0x20FE7730  |- Radeon_Notify
  61   1059  0x20BA8018  +- ? BlankerAPI Manager ?
  62   1028  0x2005B3B0  Poseidon Event Broadcast
  63   1112  0x22038870  +- PoPo (Poseidon Popups)
  64   1030  0x20070868  usbhw<pciusb.device/0>
  65   1041  0x200EDE28  |- pciusb.device UHCI Task
  66   1042  0x2010E9E8  +- pciusb.device UHCI Task
  67   1031  0x20093BA0  ? Menu Handler ?
  ...

Requirements

Requires MorphOS 2.0. If there is interest I might check to make it work on MorphOS 1.4.x too. Depends on feedback. As usual.


Download

The archive is available on my well-known site (See the 'ORG' in my signature).



regards,
tokai