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From: mikep@ism780c.UUCP (Michael A. Petonic)
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Subject: Re: using argv to show process status...
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Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 22:06:24 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 26 22:06:24 1987
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Another way of doing it (informing the SysAdmin about the status of
a program) instead of what I earlier proposed (writing information
to a file much like the utmp file) is to: (break for lack of anything else)

Modify the interpreter so that instead of calling loading "menu" and
running it, just execl("/usr/lbin/interp","menu",0) and at the beginning
of interp, have a switch statement based on argv[0] which will do
the rest.  This way you get fast results with a ps (but I still like
the other way).

MikeP