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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Re: setsid(2)
Message-ID: <5498@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 24 Jan 91 20:58:32 GMT
References: <MITCH.91Jan22152644@hq.af.mil> <1991Jan23.003454.17927@eng.umd.edu>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>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).