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Fixes: #14957
PR-URL: #16839
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net>
Reviewed-By: Ben Noordhuis <info@bnoordhuis.nl>
Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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cjihrig authored and MylesBorins committed Jan 15, 2018
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13 changes: 13 additions & 0 deletions doc/api/process.md
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Expand Up @@ -1373,6 +1373,19 @@ system platform on which the Node.js process is running. For instance
console.log(`This platform is ${process.platform}`);
```

## process.ppid
<!-- YAML
added: REPLACEME
-->

* {integer}

The `process.ppid` property returns the PID of the current parent process.

```js
console.log(`The parent process is pid ${process.ppid}`);
```

## process.release
<!-- YAML
added: v3.0.0
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9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions src/node.cc
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Expand Up @@ -3184,6 +3184,12 @@ static void EnvEnumerator(const PropertyCallbackInfo<Array>& info) {
}


static void GetParentProcessId(Local<Name> property,
const PropertyCallbackInfo<Value>& info) {
info.GetReturnValue().Set(Integer::New(info.GetIsolate(), uv_os_getppid()));
}


static Local<Object> GetFeatures(Environment* env) {
EscapableHandleScope scope(env->isolate());

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Integer::New(env->isolate(), GetProcessId()));
READONLY_PROPERTY(process, "features", GetFeatures(env));

process->SetAccessor(FIXED_ONE_BYTE_STRING(env->isolate(), "ppid"),
GetParentProcessId);

auto need_immediate_callback_string =
FIXED_ONE_BYTE_STRING(env->isolate(), "_needImmediateCallback");
CHECK(process->SetAccessor(env->context(), need_immediate_callback_string,
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16 changes: 16 additions & 0 deletions test/parallel/test-process-ppid.js
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'use strict';
require('../common');
const assert = require('assert');
const cp = require('child_process');

if (process.argv[2] === 'child') {
// The following console.log() call is part of the test's functionality.
console.log(process.ppid);
} else {
const child = cp.spawnSync(process.execPath, [__filename, 'child']);

assert.strictEqual(child.status, 0);
assert.strictEqual(child.signal, null);
assert.strictEqual(+child.stdout.toString().trim(), process.pid);
assert.strictEqual(child.stderr.toString().trim(), '');
}

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