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From: andrew@cs.arizona.edu (Andrei V. Zaitsev)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Connection between C program and shell
Message-ID: <1308@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 31 Mar 91 05:44:56 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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How C program can determine in what shell it is being executed ?
There are some clumsy ways to solve this problems (for example,
analyze the output of ps) but I feel that there must be a more
elegant way.