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From: scottl@convergent.com (Scott Lurndal)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: How do I find programs complete run-string ?
Message-ID: <3348@risky.Convergent.COM>
Date: 9 Mar 91 01:09:39 GMT
References: <199@ezelmo.UUCP> <510@bria>
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Reply-To: scottl@convergent.com (Scott Lurndal)
Organization: Unisys Network Computing Group
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In article <510@bria>,  writes:
|> In an article, ezelmo.UUCP!kenc (Ken Cornetet) writes:
|> >
|> >Under system V, how does one find the complete runstring of another
|> >process ?  By snooping around in the proc and user tables, I can find
|> >the process argv[0], but I don't see any way to get the rest of the
|> >args. 
|> 
|> Under SysV you want to look at u->u_psargs which will contain up to
|> PSARGSZ characters of the command line.
|>
Assuming of course that your operating system, which provides SysV semantics to 
applications and users, actually *has* a u-area (I know of at least 
two that don't have either a proc structure or a u area) (and don't
even have a /dev/kmem!)