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From: logan@vsedev.VSE.COM (James Logan III)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: modifying parent's environment, etc.
Message-ID: <1494@vsedev.VSE.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 89 12:15:17 GMT
References: <2158@pur-phy>
Reply-To: logan@vsedev.VSE.COM (James Logan III)
Organization: VSE Software Development Lab
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In article <2158@pur-phy> sho@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP
(Sho Kuwamoto) writes:
# This thread got me to thinking.  I wrote a quickie program which,
# for reasons I don't need to go into now, modified argv[i].  The
# strangest thing happened: if you run it in the background and look
# at it using ps, the line where it tells you what you typed in as
# your command line changes.  I'm interested to know if this works
# on all versions of UNIX.  Compile the following, run it in the
# background, and do a PS.  Over here, we are running BSD 4.3.

I tried it under System V Release 2.  It doesn't work.

			-Jim

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