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<h3 class="section">36.6 Process, Group, and User IDs</h3>
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— Built-in Function: pgid = <b>getpgrp</b> ()<var><a name="index-getpgrp-3295"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Return the process group id of the current process.
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<!-- getpid src/syscalls.cc -->
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— Built-in Function: pid = <b>getpid</b> ()<var><a name="index-getpid-3296"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Return the process id of the current process.
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— Built-in Function: pid = <b>getppid</b> ()<var><a name="index-getppid-3297"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Return the process id of the parent process.
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— Built-in Function: euid = <b>geteuid</b> ()<var><a name="index-geteuid-3298"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Return the effective user id of the current process.
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— Built-in Function: uid = <b>getuid</b> ()<var><a name="index-getuid-3299"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Return the real user id of the current process.
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— Built-in Function: egid = <b>getegid</b> ()<var><a name="index-getegid-3300"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Return the effective group id of the current process.
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— Built-in Function: gid = <b>getgid</b> ()<var><a name="index-getgid-3301"></a></var><br>
<blockquote><p>Return the real group id of the current process.
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