Runtime.getPID() still not availble to get process ID

Question

Hi folks,
this was reported as as bug 4244896 in 1999 and still hasn't made it into the VM. Although exactly what constitutes a processID isn't entirely portable on most OSs it generally has a fairly simple implementation "getpid()".
In the absence of this function, developers who do need this information have to resort to all sorts or non-portable tricks such as calls to perl's getppid() function which rather defeats the argument of encouraging portability.
If you agree this would be a useful enhancement please vote for this "RFE" to make it onto the "top 25" here:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4244896
Thanks
John H.

Answer 1

Thanks BB and Rajiv.I am using the suggested approach ( getting request key using process instance key from OIU table) but I am not able to get the requestid for operations like "disable","enable".This is what my requirement is: I need to send an email after the operations like "Create User","Disable User" and "Enable User".I have written a process task adapter "SendEmail" which gets triggered on Successful completion of Create user,Disable user etc..In the Send email adapter,I am just passing the process instance key ,using which I was getting the requestkey (using SQL query).
This is working properly for "Create User" but failing for "Disable User".The reason i noticed is that,request id is getting updated after the request is completed but the "SendEmail" task is triggered before that.
Any thoughts on how to solve this?.Thanks.