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From: lee@unm-ivax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: runaway grep - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 14-Aug-83 19:31:46 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 14 19:31:46 1983
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 One of the questions was answered. The other's answer is:

A process name parenthesized by 'ps' means that is the name that will
be entered into system accounting.

Thus, an exec like:

execl (name, arg0, arg1, arg2, ..., 0);

would have the command 'name' stripped of path entered into system
accounting, irregardless of arg0 which a program could check and interpret
to be the name it was invoked as.

		--Lee (Ward)
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