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I would like to get the process ID of ROS 2 nodes .
In ROS 1 , it could be achieved by Slave_API
In ROS 2 , I viewed rclcpp API and only could get just about nodes and topics name information.
Is there any way I can do it ？
Willing to take advice.
You can just insert this snippet into your node, it's not ros specific:
//print pid
#include <unistd.h>
std::cout << "pid= " << getpid() << std::endl;
//print tid
#include <thread>
std::cout << "tid=" << std::this_thread::get_id() << std::endl;
Thanks. After I studied, I found two ways that don't modify the user code. One is using eBPF to insert the probe into rcl layer where nodes were initialized there. The other way is using ready-made tools ros2_tracing.
Asked: 2020-12-08 01:46:38 -0500
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Last updated: Jan 01 '21
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There isn't really a way to look for PIDs in the ROS 2 API. The main reason for this is that in ROS 2, a PID isn't a good indication of a single unit of work. That is, there can be multiple nodes in a single process by using composition.
What are you trying to accomplish? Maybe there is another way to do what you want.
Sorry for the late reply . I would like to profile nodes at runtime with perf. For the profiling result , I needed to mapping PIDs or process names to nodes.