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From: jjones@casca.cs.uiuc.edu (Joel Jones)
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Subject: Re: Get process name w/o using argv[0] in C function?
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One reason one may not be able to use a global is
if the function that needs the process name
may be a library that is linked in.  One way of
accomplishing the goal (though inefficient) is
to do a getpid(2), and then do a popen(3) with
an argument of "ps -p pid ..."

  Joel Jones
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