Number of Running Processes on a Minix system from C code

Question

So, this seemed simple at first, but after crawling Google and here, the answer doesn\'t seem as simple as I first thought.

Basically, I\'m editing a MINIX kernel as

Answer 1

struct kinfo kinfo;
int nr_tasks, nr_procs;
getsysinfo(PM_PROC_NR, SI_KINFO, &kinfo);
nr_procs = kinfo.nr_pro;

This will get you the number of processes running