getgid

Return the numeric group identity of the calling process.

Installation

npm install @stdlib/process-getgid

Usage

var getgid = require( '@stdlib/process-getgid' );

getgid()

Returns the numeric group identity of the calling process.

var id = getgid();

Notes

• The function only returns an integer group identity on POSIX platforms. For all other platforms (e.g., Windows, browsers, and Android), the function returns null.
• See getgid(2).

Examples

var getgid = require( '@stdlib/process-getgid' );

var gid = getgid();
console.log( 'gid: %d', gid );

See Also

• @stdlib/process-getegid: return the effective numeric group identity of a calling process.
• @stdlib/process-geteuid: return the effective numeric user identity of a calling process.
• @stdlib/process-getuid: return the numeric user identity of a calling process.

Notice

This package is part of stdlib, a standard library for JavaScript and Node.js, with an emphasis on numerical and scientific computing. The library provides a collection of robust, high performance libraries for mathematics, statistics, streams, utilities, and more.

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License

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