setsid(2)

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Fri Jan 25 07:58:32 AEST 1991


>setsid() sets the current session.  New in 4.3BSD-Reno.  I doubt that your
>system has got the slightest notion of sessions.

It doesn't, although if SunOS 4.1 had been ported to the 386i and he
were running that, it would.  "setsid()" is a POSIXism, adopted by
various flavors of UNIX in the course of adding in POSIX compatibility
(i.e., it may appear before a system becomes 100% 1003.1-compliant). 



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