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| author | sfan5 <sfan5@live.de> | 2017-12-17 01:25:23 +0100 |
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| committer | Kevin Mitchell <kevmitch@gmail.com> | 2018-02-13 20:16:01 -0800 |
| commit | 8f9785d128eef0eae656d32d664ae1a8bff0bb12 (patch) | |
| tree | 61250cdc4cd0505492e245757450e1a672713640 /DOCS/man/lua.rst | |
| parent | f17246fec15963e7cc098cf7ba7263ad02877b99 (diff) | |
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lua+js: Implement utils.getpid()
Usable for uniquely identifying mpv instances from
subprocesses, controlling mpv with AppleScript, ...
Adds a new mp_getpid() wrapper for cross-platform reasons.
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diff --git a/DOCS/man/lua.rst b/DOCS/man/lua.rst index 2e354c282f..53e6d1db21 100644 --- a/DOCS/man/lua.rst +++ b/DOCS/man/lua.rst @@ -682,6 +682,10 @@ strictly part of the guaranteed API. The function returns ``nil``. +``utils.getpid()`` + Returns the process ID of the running mpv process. This can be used to identify + the calling mpv when launching (detached) subprocesses. + ``utils.parse_json(str [, trail])`` Parses the given string argument as JSON, and returns it as a Lua table. On error, returns ``nil, error``. (Currently, ``error`` is just a string |