SYS_GETPID

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Updated: 06 October 2005
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NAME

sys_getpid - return the thread group id of the current process

SYNOPSIS

"SYNOPSIS"

asmlinkage long sys_getpid ( void);

ARGUMENTS

void: no arguments

DESCRIPTION

Note, despite the name, this returns the tgid not the pid. The tgid and the pid are identical unless CLONE_THREAD was specified on clone in which case the tgid is the same in all threads of the same group.

This is SMP safe as current->tgid does not change.

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Time: 05:31:00 GMT, October 06, 2005