How to get PID of process I've just started within java program?

Question

I've started a process with following code

 ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("cmd", "/c", "path");
 try {
     Process p = pb.start();       
 } 
 catch (IOException ex) {}

Now I need to know the process's pid that I've just started.

Answer 1

Since Java 9 class Process has new method long pid(), so it is as simple as

ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("cmd", "/c", "path");
try {
    Process p = pb.start();
    long pid = p.pid();      
} catch (IOException ex) {
    // ...
}