site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On Dec 15, 2007, at 3:04 PM, David M. Cotter wrote: Something like the following? #include <CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.h> #include <stdio.h> CFPropertyListRef system_profiler() { FILE *fp = popen( "system_profiler -xml", "r" ); CFMutableDataRef dataRef = CFDataCreateMutable( NULL, 0 ); CFPropertyListRef listRef; char buf[1024]; size_t size; -- Steve Checkoway "Anyone who says that the solution is to educate the users hasn't ever met an actual user." -- Bruce Schneier _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com Invoke the system_profiler tool and parse its output; use something like "system_profiler -xml SPHardwareDataType". i am unable to find any API called "system_profiler()" that I can call from my C++ (carbon) program. while( (size = fread(buf, sizeof(buf), 1, fp)) ) CFDataAppendBytes( dataRef, (const UInt8*)buf, size ); pclose( fp ); listRef = CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData( NULL, dataRef, kCFPropertyListImmutable, NULL ); CFRelease( dataRef ); return listRef; } Perhaps add some error checking on the return of popen(); maybe an ferror() before pclose(). smime.p7s