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From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: Oliver Bandel <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Determination of the identification for the last started background process
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2021 19:00:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aa0dd62d-0c51-c940-38fd-f2ed93a644f4@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D87615FB-6BE5-461C-9435-DD06C7B68010@first.in-berlin.de>

> Do you mean the process ID, when talking about "an identification"?

Yes.


> Do you really need it?

I imagine that a PID will be needed so that a corresponding wait function call
can be performed finally.
https://ocaml.org/releases/4.11/htmlman/libref/UnixLabels.html#VALwaitpid

Regards,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-09 18:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-06 14:05 Markus Elfring
2021-01-06 14:41 ` Gabriel Scherer
2021-01-09 16:08   ` Markus Elfring
2021-01-09 16:33     ` Gabriel Scherer
2021-01-09 16:43       ` [Caml-list] Creation of a child process without extra standard input? Markus Elfring
2021-01-09 16:44       ` [Caml-list] Determination of the identification for the last started background process Xavier Leroy
2021-01-09 16:52         ` Markus Elfring
2021-01-09 17:29           ` Oliver Bandel
2021-01-09 18:00             ` Markus Elfring [this message]
2021-01-09 17:26     ` Oliver Bandel
2021-01-09 17:52       ` Markus Elfring
2021-01-10  9:00       ` [Caml-list] Specification of an input file for a child process Markus Elfring

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