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From: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Using argv to show process status
Message-ID: <7164@ism780c.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Aug-87 00:31:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: ism780c.7164
Posted: Sat Aug 22 00:31:32 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Aug-87 10:40:55 EDT
References: <1217@mhres.mh.nl> <6303@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1224@mhres.mh.nl>
Reply-To: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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Keywords: argv ps

In article <1224@mhres.mh.nl> jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans) writes:
}We are running a kind of interpreter for a programming language in which
}lots of applications have been written. One of the features of the
}language is that a program can chain to a successor program. Chains are
}handled internally by the interpreter, no new process is started.
}
}When a user starts an application with "RUN menu", and menu chains to different
}application programs which all chain back to menu for the next choice,
}the "ps" will always show the "RUN menu" command.


Well, how about making links to small C programs that would "RUN Menu"
(or a shell script) and then arv[0] would be the name of the link.