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From: becher@armada.UUCP (Jonathan D. Becher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Getting the pid/uid of st80
Keywords: st80, VAX, uid
Message-ID: <112@armada.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jun 89 04:06:08 GMT
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I'm basically a Smalltalk newcomer, so my apologies if this is a 
silly question:

I'm running Smalltalk-80 (ParcPlace) version 2.4 on a Sun and want to
get the pid and/or uid of the Smalltalk process.  The functionality I'm
looking for is equivalent to system calls getpid(2) and getuid(2) from 
a C program.  Is there anyway to call arbitrary C library functions?

I do know that if I create a new Unix process from Smalltalk (like a
terminal shell) that I can get its process id.  However, I'm trying to 
determine the pid of Smalltalk itself.

IN Thanks ADVANCE.

Jon Becher
argosy!becher@decwrl.dec.com

"Tie to birds together and though they have four wings they cannot fly"