Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Finding if a process is active
Message-ID: <3482@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 15 Jun 90 18:26:37 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>Apparently your system keeps the name somewhere in the u-area.  Not
>all UNIX systems do that..

Most do, though (V7, x.yBSD, S3, S5Rx, and all derivatives of the
aforementioned with which I've worked); that's what's written to the
kernel process accounting file when a process exits.