ms c++ get pid of current process

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  •  08-07-2019
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Question

Parts of my application are in C++ under windows. I need the process id for the current process. Any thoughts?

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Solution

The GetCurrentProcessId function will do this.

OTHER TIPS

Having grown accustomed to seeing yards and yards of code to accomplish seemingly straightforward tasks, I was pleasantly surprised at the directness of GetCurrentProcessId. Earlier today, I watched it run in a debugger, when I was following a new bit of code in a DllMain routine that combines the process ID with an embedded GUID to create a locally unique name for a mutex.

Following is the entire routine, all three machine instructions.

mov         eax,fs:[00000018]
mov         eax,dword ptr [eax+20h]
ret

BTW, two other blessedly simple Windows API functions are GetLastError and SetLastError; indeed, both are quite similar to this one.

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