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From: jack@mcvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Using argv to show process status
Message-ID: <57@piring.cwi.nl>
Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 16:31:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: piring.57
Posted: Wed Aug 26 16:31:32 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Aug-87 07:53:45 EDT
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Keywords: argv ps

In article <26252@sun.uucp> guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>On some other versions of UNIX, the kernel copies the argument list into a
>location in the U page, and "ps" looks there instead;...
Huh? What is the use of this?
Is this only so that ps can find out this information, or is there
some other reason?

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