NAME getpid, getppid - get process identification SYNOPSIS #include pid_t getpid(void); pid_t getppid(void); DESCRIPTION getpid returns the process ID of the current process. (This is often used by routines that generate unique tem- porary file names.) getppid returns the process ID of the parent of the cur- rent process. CONFORMING TO POSIX, BSD 4.3, SVID SEE ALSO exec(2), fork(2), kill(2), mkstemp(3), tmpnam(3), tempnam(3), tmpfile(3)