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Re: idl process id



Eric J. Korpela wrote:
> 
> If you really feel lucky you can try something like......
> 
> IDL> ; check your libc version before doing this!
> IDL> result=call_external('/lib/libc.so.1.9','getpid')
> IDL> print,result
>        23847

Whoa! Does this work in any general sense? Do you have suggestions
for getting references on which routines are available in which
libraries? How "safe" is this?

Dave
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