[R] reading PID

[M. Edward Borasky]

The classical use for one's own PID is generating a unique temporary file
name.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Prof Brian Ripley
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 5:59 AM
> To: Frank Gerrit Zoellner
> Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] reading PID
>
>
> On Wed, 23 May 2001, Frank Gerrit Zoellner wrote:
>
> > How can I read the process id of my actual R session?
>
> That's an OS-specific question, isn't it?  Let me guess, Linux.  There is
> no specific way to get the pid within an R process (what could you do
> with it?), but you can trivially dyn.load some code to tell you via a call
> to getpid.
>
> Of course adding a Sys.getpid() function would be easy, but what use would
> it be?  Also, what type is pid_t to map to in R?
>
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