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# DispatchSourceProcess

A dispatch source that monitors an external process for events.

```
protocol DispatchSourceProcess : DispatchSourceProtocol, Sendable
```

## Overview

You do not adopt this protocol in your objects. Instead, use the [`makeProcessSource(identifier:eventMask:queue:)`](/documentation/Dispatch/DispatchSource/makeProcessSource(identifier:eventMask:queue:)) method to create an object that adopts this protocol.

## Topics

### Getting the Process ID

[`handle`](/documentation/Dispatch/DispatchSourceProcess/handle)

The process identifier of the process being monitored by the dispatch source.

### Getting the Event Data

[`data`](/documentation/Dispatch/DispatchSourceProcess/data)

Data associated with the last process-related event.

[`mask`](/documentation/Dispatch/DispatchSourceProcess/mask)

The process events being monitored by the dispatch source.


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