GETPID

Section: MINTLIB LIBRARY FUNCTIONS (3)
Updated: 3 March 1993
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NAME

getpid, getprgp, getppid - get process, process group,
and parent process IDs

SYNOPSIS

#include <unistd.h>

int getpid(void);

int getprgp(void);

int getppid(void);

DESCRIPTION

getpid returns the process ID of the calling process. getpgrp returns the process group ID of the calling process. getppid returns the parent process ID of the calling process.

NOTES

When MiNT is not active, the 16 most significant bits of the basepage of the process are returned for getpid; 0 is returned for getpgrp; the 16 most significant bits of the parents process' basepage are returned for getppid. It seems that the BSD UN*X version of getpgrp takes an argument.