15.10 Additional Operating System Functions

15.1	Paths
15.2	Filesystem
15.3	Networking
15.4	Processes
15.5	Logging
15.6	Time
15.7	Environment Variables
15.8	Environment and Runtime Information
15.9	Command-Line Parsing
15.10	Additional Operating System Functions

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package: base

The racket/os library additional functions for querying the operating system.

Added in version 6.3 of package base.

procedure
(gethostname) → string?

Returns a string for the current machine’s hostname (including its domain).

procedure
(getpid) → exact-integer?

Returns an integer identifying the current process within the operating system.

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3	Syntactic Forms
4	Datatypes
5	Structures
6	Classes and Objects
7	Units
8	Contracts
9	Pattern Matching
10	Control Flow
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12	Macros
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15	Operating System
16	Memory Management
17	Unsafe Operations
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