Re: How to get octave PID inside octave

[Quentin Spencer]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 18-Aug-2006, Joshua Rigler wrote:
>
> | Quentin Spencer wrote:
> | > I'm trying to run the same script in separate instances of octave 
> | > running on the same multiprocessor machine, and I would like to 
> | > periodically save my results to a file, and would like the script to 
> | > generate a different file name in each instance of octave. It seems like 
> | > one way to do this would be to create a file name that contains the 
> | > octave PID. Is there a way to gain access to the PID from within octave? 
> | > Any other ideas for how to accomplish this?
> | > 
> | > Quentin
> | 
> | 
> | If you're running a Bash shell, you can always use
> | 
> |    >> OCT_PID = system('echo $PPID');
> | 
> | I'm not sure how portable that is though.
>
> How about just using Octave's getpid () function?
>   

I didn't know it was there, but that's exactly what I was looking for. 
Thanks.

Quentin