Getpid

A trivial portable utility to get the PID of the current Lisp process.

Example use case: start a web application on the background and use the PID to send signals to it.

API

• getpid
• save-pid &optional file

It works for SBCL, CCL, ECL, LispWorks and Allegro.

UIOP doesn't want this function, so here it is.

Installation

This library is on Ultralisp.

WTFPL.