Linux C: interactive output

Question

I'm developing some kind of mysql monitoring tool so I need interactive output like top command.

Is there any lib that can be used for this?

Answer 1

You may get some good milage out of ncurses http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/

Here is a link to the IO-Top source code. It is software that behaves like top, but displays information related to IO, rather than CPU.

• http://repo.or.cz/w/iotop.git

Answer 2

ncurses was already mentioned. Another bash approach is using dialog. See http://linux.die.net/man/1/dialog