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From: khaw@pplace.COM (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Getting the pid/uid of st80
Message-ID: <522@parcplace.pplace.COM>
Date: 3 Jun 89 23:26:48 GMT
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Organization: ParcPlace Systems, Palo Alto, CA
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<112@armada.UUCP>, by becher@armada.UUCP (Jonathan D. Becher):
> 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?

Smalltalk-80's "user primitive" facility allows you to call C functions
from Smalltalk.  See Chapter 12 "User-Defined Primitive Interface" in your
version 2.4 User's Guide.

I don't see any existing method in version 2.4 that gets the uid and pid
of the Smalltalk process.  

Mike Khaw, ParcPlace Technical Support
ParcPlace Systems, 1550 Plymouth St., Mountain View, CA 94043	415/691-6749
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