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From: r4@cbnews.ATT.COM (richard.r.grady..jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: modifying parent's environment, etc.
Message-ID: <6062@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 28 Apr 89 22:16:38 GMT
References: <2158@pur-phy>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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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.

We're running AT&T SVR2 here, and it doesn't work on our machine.
I already tried it a couple of months ago.
(I wanted to use the ps command to monitor the progress of a
long-running program started by cron.)

Dick Grady               r4@mvuxd.att.com          ...!att!mvuxd!r4