Annotation of coherent/a/usr/man/COHERENT/getpid, revision 1.1

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        !             3: getpid()               COHERENT System Call              getpid()
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        !             8: Get process identifier
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        !            10: getpid()
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        !            12: Every process  has a unique number, called  its process id.  fork
        !            13: returns the  process id of a created child  process to the parent
        !            14: process.
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        !            16: getpid returns  the process id of  the requesting process.  Typi-
        !            17: cally a  process uses  getpid to pass  its process id  to another
        !            18: process which wants to send it  a signal, or to generate a unique
        !            19: temporary file name.
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        !            21: ***** See Also *****
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        !            23: COHERENT system calls, fork(), kill, mktemp
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