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Renumber cluase 4 to 3, per what everybody else did when BSD granted them permission to remove clause 3. My insistance on keeping the same numbering for legal reasons is too pedantic, so give up on that point. Submitted by: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@stevens.edu> Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/pull/96
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.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" @(#)getpid.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd December 15, 2015
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.Dt GETPID 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm getpid ,
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.Nm getppid
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.Nd get parent or calling process identification
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In unistd.h
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.Ft pid_t
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.Fn getpid void
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.Ft pid_t
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.Fn getppid void
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn getpid
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system call
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returns
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the process ID of
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the calling process.
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Though the ID is guaranteed to be unique, it should
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.Em NOT
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be used for constructing temporary file names, for
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security reasons; see
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.Xr mkstemp 3
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instead.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn getppid
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system call
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returns the process ID of the parent
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of the calling process.
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.Sh ERRORS
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The
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.Fn getpid
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and
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.Fn getppid
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system calls are always successful, and no return value is reserved to
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indicate an error.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr fork 2 ,
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.Xr getpgrp 2 ,
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.Xr kill 2 ,
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.Xr setpgid 2 ,
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.Xr setsid 2 ,
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.Xr exec 3
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Fn getpid
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and
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.Fn getppid
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system calls are expected to conform to
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.St -p1003.1-90 .
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn getpid
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function appeared in
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.At v7 .
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