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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Can a parent process determine its child's status ?
Message-ID: <12229@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 24 Feb 90 18:44:58 GMT
References: <5090.25e135aa@mva.cs.liv.ac.uk> <22@ctbilbo.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <22@ctbilbo.UUCP> ray@ctbilbo.UUCP (Ray Ward) writes:
-You have pointed out one of the areas that needs improvement for
-real time applications, among others.  How does one get complete
-status information on a process, running or not, etc., without
-awkward programming contortions?  There is no easy way.

Sure there is.  You can access that information through the /proc
filesystem.  If you don't have this, complain to your vendor.