Use ProcessHandle to get process id

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/vespalog/src/main/java/com/yahoo/log/Util.java b/vespalog/src/main/java/com/yahoo/log/Util.java
index ec691fe4ac4..776d13c1186 100644
--- a/vespalog/src/main/java/com/yahoo/log/Util.java
+++ b/vespalog/src/main/java/com/yahoo/log/Util.java
@@ -2,13 +2,12 @@
 package com.yahoo.log;
 
 import static com.yahoo.vespa.defaults.Defaults.getDefaults;
-import java.io.BufferedReader;
-import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 
 /**
  *
  * @author Bjorn Borud
  * @author arnej27959
+ * @author bjorncs
  *
  */
 public class Util {
@@ -17,26 +16,8 @@ public class Util {
         return getDefaults().vespaHostname();
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Emulate the getpid() system call
-     **/
     public static String getPID() {
-        try {
-            Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(
-                    new String[] {"perl", "-e", "print getppid().\"\\n\";"}
-            );
-            BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(
-                    new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream(), "UTF-8"));
-            String line = r.readLine();
-            p.destroy();
-            int pid = Integer.parseInt(line);
-            if (pid > 0) {
-                return Integer.toString(pid);
-            }
-        } catch(Exception e) {
-            // any problem handled by return below
-        }
-        return "-";
+        return Long.toString(ProcessHandle.current().pid());
     }
 
 }