I was thinking about this ticket today. Regarding Alan Bateman's comment that the pid may not be representable as an int/long, I was expecting some sort of Pid-like-object to be returned. I'd rather see an abstraction that *might* be able to convert into an int/long ... or even a String, as Martin B. just said.
Cheers, Paul On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Martin Buchholz <marti...@google.com>wrote: > Thanks for taking on yet another task that has been on my TODO list for a > decade. > > I decided many years ago that the "process identifier" should actually be a > string (or at least not something as constrained as an int), in keeping > with Java's OS-independent nature, even though all implementations may in > fact use an integer. IIRC, Apollo computers used a hostname/int pair as a > process identifier, and such a convention may become popular again in the > future. > > Furthermore, returning a string is in practice at least as convenient, > since the only thing you can typically do with a pid today is pass it as a > string to a system command like "kill". > > > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 12:44 PM, roger riggs <roger.ri...@oracle.com > >wrote: > > > Please review and comment on this long requested addition to provide the > > native process id of a spawned Process. > > > > Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/webrev-getpid-8003488/ > > Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8003488 > > > > Thanks, Roger > > > > >
