GETPID(2) Linux Programmer's Manual GETPID(2)
NAME
getpid, getppid - get process identificationSYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> pid_t getpid(void); pid_t getppid(void);DESCRIPTION
getpid returns the process ID of the current process. (This is often used by routines that generate unique tem- porary file names.) getppid returns the process ID of the parent of the cur- rent process.CONFORMING TO
POSIX, BSD 4.3, SVID
exec, fork, kill, mkstemp, tmpnam, tempnam, tmpfile,
Linux 0.99.11 23 July 1993 1
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