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From: mpl@pegasus.ATT.COM (Michael P. Lindner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Get process name w/o using argv[0] in C function?
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Date: 31 Jul 90 19:34:42 GMT
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In article <9220003@hpldsla.sid.hp.com> manoj@hpldsla.sid.hp.com (Manoj Joshi) writes:
>Is there a way to get the name of a process anywhere inside the source?
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>think it is inefficient. Also, I do not think I want to use a global
>and initialize it to argv[0] in body of main(), because I do not use
>globals!
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>process id. From this I can scan thru the proc table in proc.h, and
>get the process name as a string. But this may be non-portable C.
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>Manoj.

No.  There is no way to do this.  I do not understand why you would rather
write code to scan through the proc table (which, incidentally, will require
a setuid or setgid for your program and introduce all sorts of security
risks) than use a global.  If you know your architecture, you can do a stack
trace on your process from inside to get to argv, but that is non-portable
and ugly, too (although I have a routine which does it - I like ugly things,
sometimes :^)  My recommendation: BREAK DOWN AND USE A GLOBAL.

Mike Lindner
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