Identify user in update mode

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jean-Pierre A. Radley" <appl at jpr.com>
> 
> > Dennis Malen propounded (on Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 05:27:37PM -0400):
> > | I can use the following to identify what file the user is in but
> > | not if he
> > | is in udate or has another file opened in update while sitting in
> > | the record:
> > |
> > | ps -ef|grep dennis
> >
> > Why the pipe to grep? Doesn't
> > ps -fu dennis
> > give you the same information?

In fact, it doesn't, always.  I have a user for whom I set up an infrastucture
where they have a persistant Xvnc server running for each user, and Axel
VNC terminals, and I created two status checking scripts, psu, and psg, which
do the things you might expect from reading the earlier parts of this message.

They *reliably* show different subsets of processes, though I'd have to go
look to remember why; I think it's partly to do with SUID processes.

Cheers,
-- jra
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