How to view processes from a C/C++ program?

Question

linux

Good evening everyone! You need to make a simple program (daemon) that will turn off minecraft (and not let you turn it back on) after the limit per day has expired. There was a difficulty that I do not know how to view processes in linux'e. this is the only way I know of. What are the alternatives to the above method?
system("ps -a >> file.txt")

Answer 1

In short, the answer is this. All data from the system kernel is in the magic folder / proc /
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