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These procedures are exported by the structures posix
&
posix-process-data
.
These return the process id of the current process or the current process's parent, respectively.
These access the original and effective user & group ids of the current process. The effective ids may be set, but not the original ones.
Get-groups
returns a list of the supplementary groups of the current process.Get-login-name
returns a user name for the current process.
#f
Lookup-environment-variable
looks up its argument in the environment list of the current process and returns the corresponding string, or#f
if there is none.Environment-alist
returns the entire environment as a list of(
name-string.
value-string)
pairs.