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Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 12:47:25 -0800
From: Chris Wright <chris@wirex.com>
To: Senhua Tao <stao@nbnet.nb.ca>
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Subject: Re: absolute path of a process
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* Senhua Tao (stao@nbnet.nb.ca) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     I am new to linux kernel. I like to know is there any way to find
> the absolute path of a process.  I mean, how the kernel  knows which
> process is currently running? I tried to follow  the current  variable
> but got lost. Is the inode struct should I look at?

look at the code in fs/proc/base.c::proc_exe_link(), that should explain
it.

cheers,
-chris
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