Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: process groups and session ids. | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 18 Mar 1998 12:00:56 +0100 |
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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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