What happened to System/Process.getPid() ?

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Thu Nov 15 10:08:10 UTC 2012


On 15/11/2012 01:11, Rob McKenna wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Don't ask me why, but for some reason this mail just landed in my 
> client now. (this happens a lot on this mailing list for some reason)
>
> getPid() is still on the todo list at the moment. Once I clear my 
> plate a little I'll follow up on it.
>
>     -Rob
I just received too, and dozens of other mails so there must have been a 
blockage somewhere.

I think the issue with 4244896 is just that you didn't change the 
synopsis to reflect what the changes were actually about. It would be 
good to link it to the bug suggesting a getPid equivalent. You probably 
know this but a getPid and perhaps a getCurrentPid requires great care. 
We cannot assume that it can be represented by an int or long, it needs 
to allow for environment that might not have the notion of process as we 
know it, also needs consideration of environment where they may be 
several VMs running in the same process. So lots of wriggle room in the 
spec, otherwise it will not be implementable everywhere.

-Alan



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