PWB1/usr/man/man3/cgetpid.3

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.sh NAME
cgetpid \*- return character form of process ID
.sh SYNOPSIS
.bd "cgetpid( sptr )"
.bd "char *sptr;"
.sh DESCRIPTION
The
.it cgetpid
function appends the current UNIX process number
to the string passed by the user.
The character value is zero padded on the left to five digits.

The passed string is scanned left-to-right for the first
.it NUL
byte.
If the process number were ``123'' and the function called as

 	s = "abc\\0xxxxx";
 	cgetpid( s );

the value returned would be

 	"abc00123\\0".
.s3
This function is kept in the
.bd \-lPW
library.