Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 1:46 PM +0100 1/20/04, Leopold Toetsch wrote: >>The term "process id" is really misleading.
> Nope. It's the process ID. Nothing misleading there, unless you've > done threading work under linux, since for a while it gave each > thread a separate PID. $ ps | grep [p]arrot 17472 pts/0 00:00:00 parrot 17473 pts/0 00:00:00 parrot 17474 pts/0 00:00:00 parrot So the unless applies ;) This is a single parrot interpreter, with main, thread-manager, and event-handler thread. 3 PIDs. leo