2017/4/7 7:45:38 -0700, roger.ri...@oracle.com: > That's an unfortunate artifact of evolution. > Process.getPid() was added early in 2014 and ProcessHandle a year later. > > Several iterations of ProcessHandle API explored Process being a > subclass of ProcessHandle > so the method names would be the same. When ProcessHandle was decoupled > from Process > the method name was retained for consistency.
I would think local consistency within the new `ProcessHandle` API would be more important than external consistency with the legacy `Process` API. Please consider fixing this. - Mark
