How can I count no of process invocations?

Sat Sep 1 01:17:05 AEST 1990

I would like to determine (from a C program) how many copies of the current
process are running on the machine at a point. If possible, I dont want to
run a shell script with system, but would prefer something (pref simple?),
eg using shared memory.

Thanx in advance.

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