What is a process group

[Chris Torek]

In article <1158 at msa3b.UUCP> kevin at msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) writes:
>What is a process group?

The short answer is `something you should not use unless you know what it
is' :-)

>I know the following things:
>
>	You can make a process the process group leader via setpgrp();
>	   (with some versions of UNIX)

(SysV)

>	You can send a signal to all members of a process group

Tty signals go to process groups.  If you want to avoid tty signals you
need to be in a different group, and/or not connected to the tty, and/or
simply ignore the signals (a la `nohup').

The rest of the situation is system-dependent, so that the question cannot
be answered without knowledge as to the specific Unix variant.
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