Hello everyone, here is a question well suited for the c'punks. I'm looking for some kind of utility that will allow script files to be run, to spawn off processes, but will wipe out environment and "ps" info from being read. i.e. imagine that the commands being called must shield their arguments and environment from the "ps" command run on a system. the ideal program would let me run csh scripts but make all the unix commands called (sort, grep, whatever) invisible to other users on my local system.
can it be done?
note: I am aware of the trick of using symbolic links to hide command names.
This can't be done with scripting (though, as some other folks have pointed out, you can sometimes overwrite argv from a C program). Perl might be a good alternative. You get to perform fairly high-level functions without spawning additional shells. - Mark - -- Mark Chen chen@netcom.com 415/329-6913 finger for PGP public key D4 99 54 2A 98 B1 48 0C CF 95 A5 B0 6E E0 1E 1D