getting the PID from matlab

Laurent Perrinet

2010-08-11 13:36

I need the pid to know if one of the many simulations I run are still running. There's no native solution in matlab to my knowledge.

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using hint @ http://www.mathworks.cn/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/268529

create getpid.c with

1 #include "mex.h"
2 #include <unistd.h>
3 mexFunction(int nlhs, mxArray *plhs[ ], int nrhs, const mxArray *prhs[ ])
4 {
5   plhs[0] = mxCreateDoubleScalar((double) getpid());
6 }

compile with mex getpid.c
use in matlab as pid = getpid()
this is part of the package in SparseHebbianLearning