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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: modifying parent's environment, etc.
Message-ID: <2674@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 26 Apr 89 07:16:26 GMT
References: <2158@pur-phy> <1494@vsedev.VSE.COM> <8634@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
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In article <8634@xanth.cs.odu.edu> kremer@cs.odu.edu (Lloyd Kremer) writes:
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>Yes, in System V, writing to argv[] doesn't change ps's opinion of what the
>original args were.  You must use some form of the exec() call to change the
>contents of the u_area.  The following should work:
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>Do a 'ps -f' from the child shell and see what you get.

I did.  I got "unknown switch f" (running Umax, dont'chaknow) and an
otherwise ordinary ps-listing that gave me the name, pid, etc. of the
program just as I had named it.

AND, it's odd to have your prompt go different alluvasudden.  

Try again.

				--Blair