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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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