getservbyport PORT,PROTO

getservbyname NAME,PROTO

getpwuid UID

getpwnam NAME

getpwent

getprotoent

getprotobynumber NUMBER

getprotobyname NAME

getpriority WHICH,WHO Returns the current priority for a process, a process group, or a user. (See getpriority(2).) Will raise a fatal exception if used on a machine that doesn't implement getpriority(2). Portability issues: getpriority in perlport.

getppid Returns the process id of the parent process. Note for Linux users: Between v5.8.1 and v5.16.0 Perl would work around non-POSIX thread semantics the minority of Linux systems (and Debian GNU/kFreeBSD systems) that used LinuxThreads, this emulation has since been removed. See the documentation for $$ for details. Portability issues: getppid in perlport.