id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	lang	patch	platform
1564	expose a getpid library function for Rakudo $*PID and other languages	mberends	NotFound	"Please enable language implementations to read the ID of the running Parrot process.  Coke++ implemented it in partcl with an ""evil"" workaround:

http://github.com/partcl/partcl/blob/master/runtime/builtin/pid.pir

In Windows the lib should not be null, it should get the loadlib 'kernel32' result, and the function name is '_getpid' instead of 'getpid'.

The idea was discussed during about an hour from http://irclog.perlgeek.de/parrot/2010-04-19#i_2242886

The Rakudo file src/cheats/setup-io.pm intends to use this function.  In the meantime, it may get by with a workaround similar to the one in partcl."	feature	closed	normal		core	trunk	medium	done	process ID pid getpid		perl6		all