get process id

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2004, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>Bob Stockler wrote:
>> 
>> I don't know whether I misunderstood all of the responses or
>> perhaps the originating post in this thread, but . . .
>> 
>> I thought the original question was, to the effect, "How do I
>> get the PPID of a filePro process?".
>> 
>> And, it seems to me that all of the responses concerned ways
>> to return the PPID of a program called by the USER command,
>> which would be the PID of the filePro process and not its PPID.
>
>The original question was:
>
>    I need to get the process id of a filepro program and use it in
>    a variable while in the program.

This would be easy if FP provided the appropriate function.  Various shells
use the variable ``$$'' to return the pid of the process, and it's trivial
to get in C and other langauges.

Bill
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