Querying a Process (The GNU C Library)

### 27.5 Querying a Process ¶

The file descriptor returned by the `pidfd_fork` function can be used to query process extra information.

Function: `pid_t` pidfd_getpid `(int fd)` ¶

  Preliminary: | MT-Safe | AS-Safe | AC-Safe | See POSIX Safety Concepts.

  The `pidfd_getpid` function retrieves the process ID associated with process file descriptor created with `pid_spawn`, `pidfd_fork`, or `pidfd_open`.

  If the operation fails, `pidfd_getpid` return `-1` and the following `errno` error conditionas are defined:

  `EBADF`

    The input file descriptor is invalid, does not have a pidfd associated, or an error has occurred parsing the kernel data.

  `EREMOTE`

    There is no process ID to denote the process in the current namespace.

  `ESRCH`

    The process for which the file descriptor refers to is terminated.

  `ENOENT`

    The procfs is not mounted.

  `ENFILE.`

    Too many open files in system (`pidfd_open` tries to open a procfs file and read its contents).

  `ENOMEM`

    Insufficient kernel memory was available.

  This function is specific to Linux.