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From: josef@nixpbe.UUCP (Moellers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: How to know your current shell from C code
Message-ID: <josef.653134656@peun11>
Date: 12 Sep 90 10:17:36 GMT
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In <1990Sep11.164436.9592@cadence.com> mikel@cadence.cadence.com writes:


>        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.

Quick'n'dirty:

	# include	<stdio.h>
	...
	FILE *ps;
	char line[80], *shell;
	int ppid, pspid;
	...
	ppid = getppid()
	ps = popen("ps", "r");
	fgets(line, 80, ps);	/* skip "PID TTY TIME COMMAND" */
	shell = (char *) 0;
	while (fgets(line, 80, ps) != NULL)
	{
		pspid = atoi(line);
		if (pspid == ppid)
		{
			shell = line+22;
			break;
		}
	}
	shell[strlen(shell)-1] = '\0';
	if (shell == (char *) 0)
		printf("Huh??");
	else
		printf("Your friendly neighbourhood shell is \"%s\"\n", shell);

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