to get process id

[nobody]

Oh, what a silly mistake from me.
The "ls -la" and "ping" example run well, only the
"echo $$" print $$ instaed of the process id, but it's not so
importent, i get your example with getpid.

Thank you.


In article <ops95r7mol23k2f5 at nrage.netwin.co.nz>, Regan Heath says...
>
>On Fri, 26 May 2006 10:19:32 +0000 (UTC), nobody  
><nobody_member at pathlink.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> i have successfully compile my program, but i get no
>> response.
>>
>>
>> import lib.process;
>> import lib.pipestream;
>> import std.stdio;
>> import std.string;
>>
>> void main()
>> {
>> auto Process p = new Process("ls -la");
>
>The problem is that "ls" does not exist in the current directory. You need  
>to include the full path to the binary, eg.
>   auto Process p = new Process("/bin/ls -la");
>
>fork/execve doesn't work like the bash shell, it won't scan the PATH for  
>the command it's given, it just runs exactly what you ask it to.
>
>I need to look into what I can do in the event of a failure to notify the  
>parent thread (cos once you call fork() you get a copy, that copy calls  
>execve and should never return, it does, indicating a failure).
>
>> writefln("%s",p.readLine());
>> }
>> // dmd ping.d lib/process.d lib/pipestream.d
>>> build ping
>> gcc lib/process.o ping.o lib/pipestream.o -o ping -m32 -lphobos  
>> -lpthread -lm
>>
>>
>> I have comment in the line 230 in process.d
>> extern (C) char* strerror(int);
>> and the line 50 in pipestream.d
>> char* strerror(int);
>
>Yep, those are declared in std.string and we don't need to declare them  
>anymore.
>
>Regan