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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Finding if a process is active
Message-ID: <13119@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 14 Jun 90 19:30:16 GMT
References: <1629@s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca> <13095@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2546@awdprime.UUCP>
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In article <2546@awdprime.UUCP> tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com writes:
>Am I completely off?

Apparently your system keeps the name somewhere in the u-area.  Not
all UNIX systems do that..