[plt-scheme] current process id

I'm kinda new to the scheme mindset, so please would
someone tell me if this is preferable to writing an extension
module wrapping getpid().

Would this not lead to a more portable approach, since you'd
be forced to reimplement this properly for (say) Windows or
other system (such as HPUX) that doesn't implement "/proc"
(or similar).

Or am I thinking like a C programmer?

tim


Eli Barzilay wrote:
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> On Feb  5, David J. Neu wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I'm wondering if there is a way to determine the current process id
>>from within a mzscheme program?
> 
> 
> I don't think that there is any way to do it completely from inside
> MzScheme (it would probably be a useful extension).  Anyway, if you're
> using Linux, a simple way to get the current pid is:
> 
>   (string->number (resolve-path "/proc/self"))
> 
> I found similar tricks for Sun (cd into /proc/self, then check the
> current directory), and FreeBSD (use "/proc/curproc").
> 

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