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| author | cinap_lenrek <cinap_lenrek@felloff.net> | 2020-12-19 15:15:38 +0100 |
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| committer | cinap_lenrek <cinap_lenrek@felloff.net> | 2020-12-19 15:15:38 +0100 |
| commit | 672cf179a1a8a17a4a977eeada60a035a27ed98d (patch) | |
| tree | f179313e163c1c9f9dad59251cd05cd31e1f560b /sys/man/2 | |
| parent | d919ad3b5e8e98d7470275d724772de221e060f6 (diff) | |
libc: implement getppid() reading /proc/$pid/ppid instead of /dev/ppid
The devcons driver is really the wrong place to
serve per process information.
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/man/2')
| -rw-r--r-- | sys/man/2/getpid | 13 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/sys/man/2/getpid b/sys/man/2/getpid index 6d795746d..9245df9be 100644 --- a/sys/man/2/getpid +++ b/sys/man/2/getpid @@ -13,27 +13,18 @@ int getpid(void) int getppid(void) .SH DESCRIPTION .I Getpid -reads -.B /dev/pid -(see -.IR cons (3)) -and converts it to get the process id of the current process, +returns the process id of the current process, a number guaranteed to be unique among all running processes on the machine executing .IR getpid . .PP .I Getppid -reads -.B /dev/ppid -(see -.IR cons (3)) -and converts it to get the id of the parent of the current process. +returns the process id of the parent of the current process. .SH SOURCE .B /sys/src/libc/9sys .SH SEE ALSO .IR intro (2), .IR exec (2), -.IR cons (3), .IR proc (3) .SH DIAGNOSTICS Returns 0 and |