linux-kernel - Re: path_lookup for executable

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Date:	Mon, 20 Nov 2006 20:27:57 +0100
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	e m <eyubo@...mail.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: path_lookup for executable

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 19:14 +0000, e m wrote:
> Thanks for response. Is there any other way to identify if "current"  is a 
> certain program  such as java.  You cannot surely go by name (comm field of 
> task_struct). Since  It could be linked. In another word, I want to identify 
> the executing current program. Any help appreciated.

since the binary may have been removed from the disk entirely (and no
that is not a corner case, a lot of the background daemons will have
that if their "original" gets rpm-updated or similar)... what would this
mean? What do you want to use it for?



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