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From: witr@rwwa.com (Robert Withrow)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: How to find the filename of the binary executable...
Date: 18 Dec 1994 17:38:22 GMT
Organization: R.W. Withrow Associates
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References: <3c35e2$6sv@shore.shore.net> <VIXIE.94Dec8182530@gw.home.vix.com> <1994Dec16.231001.15994@physiol.su.OZ.AU>
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In article <1994Dec16.231001.15994@physiol.su.OZ.AU>, john@physiol.su.OZ.AU (John Mackin) writes:

|> In that implementation, a PIOCOPENT ("open text") ioctl() on the /proc
|> file returns a read-only file descriptor on the text file the image came
|> from. 

The 4.4 proc filesystem has the <pid>/file entry which is even easier.

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