Linux C: interactive output

Question

I am developing some kind of mysql monitoring tool, so I need interactive output like the top command.

Is there any lib that can be used for this?

Answer 1

You can get a good post from ncurses http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/

Here is the link to the source code of IO-Top. This is software that behaves like top, but displays information related to the IO, not the processor.

• http://repo.or.cz/w/iotop.git

Answer 2

ncursesalready mentioned. Another approach is bashusing dialog. See http://linux.die.net/man/1/dialog