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