RFR 9: 8003488 Add Process.getPid

[Florian Weimer]

On 05/22/2014 05:34 PM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
> I guess this is a little late, and minor, but the "jstack" tool uses the
> acronym "nid" for this purpose, which I believe is mapped to the same
> concept (on Linux it is anyway).
>
> I think either this terminology should be unified on the jstack side, or
> else the method should be called "getNativeId" or "getNid" or something.

nid is the gettid return value (kernel task ID), which is distinct from 
getpid.  I doubt there are plans for exposing kernel tasks at the JDK 
level.  Even glibc attempts to hide task IDs.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security