Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 12:30, Geir A. Myrestrand wrote:
Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 11:17, Thomas Hertweck wrote:
Anders Johansson wrote: ...
ls -l /proc/$$/exe Could you please elaborate why you came up with this solution? I think this is not portable - for instance, our HP box here has no procfs, so your solution fails. An "echo $0" should always work (as far as I know). I thought it was rather clever.
This is a list for users of openSUSE Linux or of other Novell SuSE Linux releases. At the very least, Linux is a reasonable assumption for answers given here, and all current Linux systems have a proc file system. Note that procfs is deprecated. It is likely to be removed one day. To make your solution future-proof you should avoid using it.
"My" solution? I did not propose it, Anders Johansson did.
I never meant to refer to you, Randall. I know it wasn't your proposed solution. I meant to the ones who implement the solution (of identifying the shell running). Was my grammar wrong? I think it is correct, but English is just one of my five languages, and it is not my primary language, so I'm sorry if I dragged you into the wrong role here Randall.
"Deprecated" is typically nothing more than a wag of the proverbial finger. And nothing works forever.
Deprecated means it will be removed one day. The sooner people stop using it the sooner it can be removed. Anyway, I agree with you. But, it looks like procfs is perhaps not deprecated in its entirety after all...(but if someone can find proof one way or the other then I would like to see it, please share)... -- Geir A. Myrestrand -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org