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From: mikel@cadence.cadence.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: How to know your current shell from C code
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Date: 11 Sep 90 16:44:36 GMT
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        Recently I had a UNIX question.  I have a c program and
I want to know which shell(sh,csh,ksh) is my parent.  Is there
any way to do this?  Environment variable is not acceptable.