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SubjectRe: process groups and session ids.
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Alexander Kjeldaas <astor@guardian.no> writes:

|> Can a process have a process group or a session id that doesn't
|> correspond to an existing process?

Yes, the session or process group leader may have died already. For
example, you can put a process in the background and then log out, or the
process group leader could have been the head of a pipe, but the consumer
didn't finish yet processing the input even after it received EOF from the
pipe.

--
Andreas Schwab "And now for something
schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de completely different"
schwab@gnu.org

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