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From: mike@nixba.UUCP (Mike Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: modifying parent's environment, etc.
Summary: ps and ps -f didn't agree
Message-ID: <368@nixba.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 89 13:59:20 GMT
References: <2158@pur-phy> <1494@vsedev.VSE.COM> <8634@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <2674@buengc.BU.EDU>
Organization: Nixdorf Computer GSfBA, Nuremberg, West Germany
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> In article <8634@xanth.cs.odu.edu> kremer@cs.odu.edu (Lloyd Kremer) writes:
> >Yes, in System V, writing to argv[] doesn't change ps's opinion of what the
> >original args were.

I tried the original program with the three strings that were repeatedly copied
to argv[0].  I used *s[] = { "hello", "there", "people"}, and started the
program with something like 'foo &'. ps always showed 'foo' in the column 
COMMAND, but a ps -f would show the three different strings, and combinations
of *parts* of the strings like 'thople'.

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