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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!think.com!ames!pacbell.com!well!jewels From: jewels@well.sf.ca.us (Julian Gordon) Subject: Setsid system call Message-ID: <1992Oct1.002222.7719@well.sf.ca.us> Keywords: session, system calls Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 00:22:22 GMT Lines: 31 We are trying to port the bsd version of telnetd to a Dynix 3.0.1 OS, and have found that it has no setsid call. We would like to if anyone has encountered this same problem. As the man page states it: DESCRIPTION setsid executes command after altering the execution environment such that the next non-controlling terminal opened will be assigned as command's controlling terminal. We would like to know if anyone has attempted to fudge this system call on a system that doesn't have this call. Or if there is any source available to show us how it is implemented. Thanks *******************************************************************> * ~~ Jewels ~~ of ~~ Thought ~~ -> * Breaking the electronic frontier, and forging into cyberspace. > * By increasing communication, are we also breaking it? -> * "Television allows thousands to laugh at the same time at the > * same joke, and still remain alone" -> * Bertrand Russell. -> * Will computers do the same.... -> * -> * /\/\ Julian Gordon /\/\ (jewels@well.sf.ca.us) > * /\/\ The WELL, /\/\/\ (415) 332-4335 9-5 PDT -> * /\/\ 27 Gate Five Road, \/\/\/ > * /\/\ Sausalito, CA 94965 \/\/ -> *******************************************************************>