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From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: "Monitoring" a process
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Date: 23 Jan 91 06:18:37 GMT
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In-Reply-To: rickc@telly.on.ca's message of 21 Jan 91 21:04:55 GMT

In article <279B5779.58AF@telly.on.ca> rickc@telly.on.ca (Rick Copley) writes:

   Can anyone out there tell me how to tell if a given process is actually
   doing any thing (ie accumulating cpu time) from within a C program ??

pmon does this.  it runs at least on decs, look on gatekeeper.  dunno
about system v.

--Ed