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  1. Path: mail2news.demon.co.uk!genesis.demon.co.uk
  2. From: Lawrence Kirby <fred@genesis.demon.co.uk>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: getting Unix's current running process id
  5. Date: Sun, 24 Mar 96 21:02:53 GMT
  6. Organization: none
  7. Message-ID: <827701373snz@genesis.demon.co.uk>
  8. References: <UlJ5MNm00YUwM=wGwV@andrew.cmu.edu>
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  14. In article <UlJ5MNm00YUwM=wGwV@andrew.cmu.edu>
  15.            elie+@andrew.cmu.edu "Elie Jean-Philippe" writes:
  16.  
  17. >Hi all,
  18. >Does anybody know what C function returns the current running process's Unix
  19. >process id ?
  20. >Any help would be appreciated.
  21.  
  22. There is no C language function that does this. There is however a Unix system
  23. function called getpid() but the place to ask about that is
  24. comp.unix.programmer.
  25.  
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  28. Lawrence Kirby | fred@genesis.demon.co.uk
  29. Wilts, England | 70734.126@compuserve.com
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