proc table in /dev/kmem

[George W. Leach]

In article <4161 at encore.UUCP> bzs at encore.com (Barry Shein) writes:

>>I have a situation where given a process id, I need to find the child(ren)
>>of that pid.  

>Why are you so shy about groveling a ps listing? You don't have to use
>awk if you're worried about all the overhead/memory, you can use
>popen() and just get it yourself with a little string manipulation.

>Do it like the pros, cheat!


     Thats right!  We all do this.  In fact, take a look at "The UNIX
Programming Environment", Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike, Prentice-Hall,
on pages 190-192 at the zap program.  Copy and modify it to to your needs.



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