What happened to System/Process.getPid() ? (original) (raw)

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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