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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Is it possible to hide process args from 'ps -ef'?? (Recap)
Keywords: ps exec
Message-ID: <7293@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 21 Apr 91 00:33:02 GMT
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Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>  The problem with method 2 above is,

The problem with method 2 above is that, unless ISC UNIX is fairly
different from S5 as it comes from AT&T, "ps" doesn't *look* at the
argument list on the stack - it looks at the argument list as set up in
a string in the U area at startup, so your program can twiddle the argv
list until the cows come home and it won't affect what "ps" sees.