# Getting stdio process ID

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**Tags:** standard-library\
**Created:** [September 11, 2019, 12:07pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/getting-stdio-process-id/25317 "2019-09-11T12:07:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/getting-stdio-process-id/25317/9 "2019-09-22T20:24:31Z")

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Fred’s blog gives a very good description of how it looks and why it looks like that. We had OS inspired thinking behind the design of the system. That’s why I like to say that Erlang is not a language with concurrency but a OS with a language. Elixir buys straight into this though iex is not quite as concurrent as the Erlang shell.

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