# Get process id from worker id

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/get-process-id-from-worker-id/122315>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** parallel, distributed\
**Created:** [November 6, 2024, 2:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/get-process-id-from-worker-id/122315 "2024-11-06T02:51:54Z")\
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Is there an easy way to get, from the worker id, the process id? I could do

```julia
# length(workers()) == 1039
[remotecall_fetch(getpid, w_id) for w_id in workers()] 

```

but is there a way to do this on worker 1 without fetching?

Thanks!