using systeminformer as a library / command line tool

[davehorner]

https://github.com/davehorner/systeminformer
hello. I am looking to search the environment variables of any process. I see systeminformer has this feature and I tried to write a rust bindgen ffi interface and then attempted a separate c console app, now I'm on to modifying systeminformer itself. the bindgen led to a panic in bindgen on systeminformer code. the c console app I couldn't get the kernel driver installed...and it seems the kernel driver isn't even needed as systeminformer seems to be running without it...i'm not sure. access violations. inside systeminformer; it works great.

anyway, I see there's an extension plugin system. I do not see an extension of the sort I want to write though. I would like to be able to execute with parameters.

systeminformer -searchproc notepad.exe -envsearch -envname RUST_BACKTRACE -envvalue full

on my fork I have it spawning or finding a running notepad instance and searching for variables as specified. I am not sure how best to go about interfacing with this, but for my uses, its fine that I quickly show gui and exit 0 or 1 indicating if the variable is found.

questions:

• is there a way to go about this that this might get included? or can the plugin interface be extended to allow for processing command line parameters?
• any suggestions on how to get a standalone binary going like I was attempting to in env_search. I do not know what I am missing in that program that systeminformer is doing. 5258d67#diff-572f50c8d7715d1a3780775d10f4d9ec93173ca8f39de0ea762bc94c47c9ab74R1
• using the ffi and rust interface would be great. if I can't understand it well enough to implement as a basic console app...little hope. thread 'main' panicked Not able to resolve vector element?: Continue ty.rs:1135 rust-lang/rust-bindgen#3213 (comment)
• I have pid search PhFindProcessNode((HANDLE)(ULONG_PTR)PhInitialSearchPid); I do not know how to set the search for a process name yet. 3683ea8#diff-0c06e0850e5d4198d5a2de239101f0b3b5c4dbdc2d4d8626ef5e131a1ac8e7c2R186

having an ffi bindgen I could distribute binaries via cargo. doing anything else; seems hard to get to users.