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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Can a parent process determine its child's status ?
Keywords: /proc filesystem
Message-ID: <2994@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 6 Mar 90 19:31:37 GMT
References: <30@ctbilbo.UUCP>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>If you have SVR4 UNIX, which was released to the general public
>last fall, and have been into the /proc filesystem, and know how
>to use ioctl() to extract ps-type information (undocumented in
>both the SVR4 Migration Guide and my copy of the SVID89)

Not surprising, since:

	1) I think the S5R4 Migration Guide is for the benefit of people
	   migrating code from earlier S5 releases, SunOS, BSD, Xenix,
	   etc. to S5R4, and most of those systems don't have "/proc";

	2) the SVID is for stuff AT&T decided to put into the SVID, and
	   apparently they decided not to put "/proc" into the SVID. 
	   (On the other hand, it *does* have "ptrace()", sigh....)

I suspect (and sincerely hope!) that "/proc" will be documented in the
actual S5R4 manual pages.