How can a program on Linux introspect its pid? | ansaurus

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+1 Q:

How can a program on Linux introspect its pid?

How can a program on Linux discover the process id of itself? Is there something in /proc/self that will do the trick?

+4 A:

Try running on your terminal: man getpid

vanza 2010-07-05 19:26:34

+11 A:

Nikolai N Fetissov 2010-07-05 19:26:46

Wonderfully laconic.

Tim Post 2010-07-06 11:59:17

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