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From: nickel@prz.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: How to find the filename of the binary executable...
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Date: 07 Dec 1994 16:38:30 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In-reply-to: witr@rwwa.com's message of 7 Dec 1994 02:08:02 GMT
In article <3c35e2$6sv@shore.shore.net> witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow)
writes:
> Can someone tell me how to find the filename of the *binary*
> file being executed (on, say, FreeBSD 1.1.5.1, or sunos.recent)?
I think this is covered in the comp.unix.questions FAQ. Summary (as I
remember it):
- In general it doesn't work. There are cases where the name has
changed in between or removed; you may have exec'ed /dev/fd/1 etc.
- There are some attempts that do moderately well for the common
case where nothing special applies.
--
Juergen Nickelsen