RFR 9: 8003488 Add Process.getPid

[David M. Lloyd]

On 05/22/2014 08:49 AM, roger riggs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The webrev has been updated to more completely describe the pid:
> "The native process id is an identification number that the operating
> system assigns to the process."
>
> Any other comments?
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/webrev-getpid-8003488/
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Erriggs/webrev-getpid-8003488/>
> Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8003488

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.


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