In <a60354010905271136jc0f7173j312de3673fbb7...@mail.gmail.com>, Christian Jutras wrote: >I have tried to find the *getprocid()* in Debian and could not find it, > nor any equivalent. The *getproid()* function call is a standard ANSI C,
Don't make claims you can't back up. I just happen to have my copy of "ISO/IEC 9899:1999(E) -- Programming Languages -- C" and getprocid is not in it. Neither is getproid. That means they aren't ANSI C, so you can't use them in "pure" C programs. (Of course, the only "pure" C programs I've seen are toy programs.) > is there any reason for Debian (and all other Linux I looked in) not to > implement this function. Probably because it is has a more functional equivalent in the relevant standards. I looked for a replacement for you, under the assumption that you wanted something to "get the current process id". Of course, ANSI C doesn't have the idea of a "process", so I couldn't find one there. Perhaps by "standard ANSI C" you meant to include the Single UNIX Specification or POSIX extentions to the C language. Using them is fairly portable. It doesn't include MS Windows, but it does cover most other OSes. (I believe Mac OS 10.5 is UNIX 2003 certified, which requires being a conforming implementation of SUSv3 as best the test suite can tell, but I digress.) Scanning my copy of SUSv2, there's no getprocid or getproid. Whatever it is supposed to be, it's not very portable. You probably mean getpid -- that goes back to at least the System V Interface Definitions, Issue 1 which is one of, if not the, first public API documentation for UNIX. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ PS This isn't a developer list.
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