From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news.algonet.se!algonet!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!nntp.uio.no!ifi.uio.no!not-for-mail From: Erik Naggum Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Getting the PID in CLISP Date: 24 Oct 2002 20:07:54 +0000 Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 15 Message-ID: <3244478874865157@naggum.no> References: <3DB6A39D.A4E1DB47@enterprise.net> <3244374756040130@naggum.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: maud.ifi.uio.no 1035490075 8464 129.240.65.5 (24 Oct 2002 20:07:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@ifi.uio.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Oct 2002 20:07:55 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:44611 * Rob Warnock | Since one never needs to call it more than *once* per process, | the overhead of the extra subroutine won't matter. That would imply that the value would be in a global constant, which is probably just as practical in many cases, but if you do not know whether someone had forked on you since last time, you need to call the system function each time you need the value. It is like asking the system for the time of day and hoping to finish your calculation before it changes. -- Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway Act from reason, and failure makes you rethink and study harder. Act from faith, and failure makes you blame someone and push harder.