Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pdn!reggie
From: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: proc table in /dev/kmem
Message-ID: <4920@pdn.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 88 15:01:38 GMT
References: <1865@loral.UUCP> <4161@encore.UUCP>
Reply-To: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
Organization: Paradyne Corporation,   Largo FL
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In article <4161@encore.UUCP> bzs@encore.com (Barry Shein) writes:

>>I have a situation where given a process id, I need to find the child(ren)
>>of that pid.  

>Why are you so shy about groveling a ps listing? You don't have to use
>awk if you're worried about all the overhead/memory, you can use
>popen() and just get it yourself with a little string manipulation.

>Do it like the pros, cheat!


     Thats right!  We all do this.  In fact, take a look at "The UNIX
Programming Environment", Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike, Prentice-Hall,
on pages 190-192 at the zap program.  Copy and modify it to to your needs.



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