Finding if a process is active

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Sat Jun 16 04:26:37 AEST 1990


>Apparently your system keeps the name somewhere in the u-area.  Not
>all UNIX systems do that..

Most do, though (V7, x.yBSD, S3, S5Rx, and all derivatives of the
aforementioned with which I've worked); that's what's written to the
kernel process accounting file when a process exits.



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