Extracting cmdline and env of other processes

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From: Carsten Lutz
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 12:53

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Moin !

I'm looking for a way to get the commandlines and environments ( at start-
time ) of other processes. Has anyone done this before or knows what the
best way to do this is ? 'ps' has to do this in some way 'cause it's able
to display both cmdline and environment.

One way I could imagine is to find the stacks of other processes via /dev/kmem.
Undermost on this stacks there must be the commandlines and the environments
( both arguments to main() ) somewhere around. Is there a better way ? 
mach-hackers wanted !

greetings,
		Carsten


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