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From: lidl@eng.umd.edu (Kurt J. Lidl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: setsid(2)
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.003454.17927@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 91 00:34:54 GMT
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In article <MITCH.91Jan22152644@hq.af.mil> mitch@hq.af.mil (Mitch Wright) writes:
>
>Greetings!
>
>I'm trying to get the BSD released version of inetd working on my Sun386i
>and I am lacking the libc call setsid(2).  I've been unable to find it
>under the released BSD sources and was wondering if it is just part of
>another file.  If not, does anyone have an implementation of this routine
>that I could have.

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