On 05/22/2014 10:34 AM, David M. Lloyd wrote:
On 05/22/2014 08:49 AM, roger riggs wrote:
Hi,
The webrev has been updated to more completely describe the pid:
"The native process id is an identification number that the operating
system assigns to the process."
Any other comments?
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/webrev-getpid-8003488/
<http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Erriggs/webrev-getpid-8003488/>
Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8003488
I guess this is a little late, and minor, but the "jstack" tool uses the
acronym "nid" for this purpose, which I believe is mapped to the same
concept (on Linux it is anyway).
I think either this terminology should be unified on the jstack side, or
else the method should be called "getNativeId" or "getNid" or something.
Refining that thought - on Linux, process IDs and thread IDs share a
namespace, but maybe that isn't true on all platforms. Still calling it
"getPid" seems very UNIX-specific. Process.getNativeId() seems "safer"
or more future-proof to me, somehow.
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- DML
