how does current->pid work for linux?

问题:

Do I need to include a library? Can anyone please elaborate in it?

I know is used to get the process id of the current task where is being called from

But I want to printk something with current->pid

printk("My current process id/pid is %d\n", current->pid);

...and is giving me an error

error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

回答1:

You're looking for #include <linux/sched.h>. That's where task_struct is declared.

回答2:

Your code should work. You are probably missing some header.

current is a per-cpu variable defined in linux/arch/x86/include/asm/current.h (all the code is for the case of x86):

DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, current_task); static __always_inline struct task_struct *get_current(void) {     return percpu_read_stable(current_task); } #define current get_current() 

current points to the task running on a CPU at a given moment. Its type is struct task_struct and it is defined in linux/include/linux/sched.h:

struct task_struct {     ...     pid_t pid;   // process identifier     pid_t tgid;  // process thread group id     ... }; 

You can browse the code for these files in the Linux Cross Reference:

• current.h
• sched.h

回答3:

I think you're looking for the getpid() system call. I don't know what current is though.

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