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| author | Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com> | 2002-08-06 23:56:46 +0200 |
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| committer | hv <hv@crypt.org> | 2002-08-29 11:44:00 +0000 |
| commit | 4d76a3443f3312704ec3416fd425698e92a208cd (patch) | |
| tree | 769fa92e2e9f3a46a171807a82b7d5fd7c623c0a /pod/perlfunc.pod | |
| parent | 85cf7f2e6c0eee352cdc28bfa7e316574993c2ba (diff) | |
| download | perl-4d76a3443f3312704ec3416fd425698e92a208cd.tar.gz | |
posixify getppid on linux-multithread
Message-Id: <20020806215646.3f6852bb.rgarciasuarez@free.fr>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@17798
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diff --git a/pod/perlfunc.pod b/pod/perlfunc.pod index 90eeb97859..a489e7141e 100644 --- a/pod/perlfunc.pod +++ b/pod/perlfunc.pod @@ -1870,6 +1870,13 @@ does not accept a PID argument, so only C<PID==0> is truly portable. Returns the process id of the parent process. +Note for Linux users: on Linux, the C functions C<getpid()> and +C<getppid()> return different values from different threads. In order to +be portable, this behavior is not reflected by the perl-level function +C<getppid()>, that returns a consistent value across threads. If you want +to call the underlying C<getppid()>, consider using C<Inline::C> or +another way to call a C library function. + =item getpriority WHICH,WHO Returns the current priority for a process, a process group, or a user. |