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From: hendrik@zeusa.UUCP (Hendrik Vermooten)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: How can I count no of process invocations?
Message-ID: <853@zeusa.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 90 15:17:05 GMT
Organization: ZEUS software, Verwoerdburg
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I would like to determine (from a C program) how many copies of the current
process are running on the machine at a point. If possible, I dont want to
run a shell script with system, but would prefer something (pref simple?),
eg using shared memory.

Thanx in advance.

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