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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Finding if a process is active
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Date: 14 Jun 90 18:56:09 GMT
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>I thought that the "name" was stored in two separate places?

It is, but that's not a "name" in the sense that it uniquely identifies
the process.  It's just the first N characters of the last component of
the pathname of the last program "exec"ed within that process.

I.e., there are *lots* of processes "named" "sh" or "csh" on most
machines....