module Process

The module contains several groups of functionality for handling OS processes:

• Low-level property introspection and management of the current process, like Process.argv0, Process.pid;

• Low-level introspection of other processes, like Process.getpgid, Process.getpriority;

• Management of the current process: Process.abort, Process.exit, Process.daemon, etc. (for convenience, most of those are also available as global functions and module functions of Kernel);

• Creation and management of child processes: Process.fork, Process.spawn, and related methods;

• Management of low-level system clock: Process.times and Process.clock_gettime, which could be important for proper benchmarking and other elapsed time measurement tasks.