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.
This _all_ depends on which version of Linux you're using. Older versions don''t do it that way, and newer versions don't do it either (the specific versions escape me at the moment, but I know RH9 does _not_ have pids for threads).
I know, because my Thread::Signal module depends on threads having pids. But fewer and fewer Linux systems "support" it (and Linux was the only one who worked this way to begin with).
;-(
Liz
