standards/99926: [Patch] [sh(1)'s jobs] POSIX compliancy by adding -p switch

[Ed Schouten]

The following reply was made to PR standards/99926; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ed Schouten <ed at fxq.nl>
To: Roman Bogorodskiy <novel at FreeBSD.org>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, Maxim Konovalov <maxim at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: standards/99926: [Patch] [sh(1)'s jobs] POSIX compliancy by adding -p switch
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:15:03 +0200

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 * Roman Bogorodskiy <novel at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
 > > * Roman Bogorodskiy <novel at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
 > > > IMHO, this patch is wrong. You just print the actual PID of the proce=
 ss,
 > > > not the PID of the group leader.
 > > >=20
 > > > I have a simular patch, which however prints PID of the group obtained
 > > > with getpgid() for the appropriate process:
 > > >=20
 > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~novel/patches/freebsd/src_bin_sh_jobs_p.di=
 ff
 > >=20
 > > It prints the PID of the first process, which is the process group
 > > leader.
 >=20
 > Hm, sorry, I missed that part of the patch. However I wasn't able to
 > find out if the PID of the first process in group is the process group
 > leader in the docs. Is there any difference between getpgrp() and first
 > PID of the group?
 
 No, process groups are identified by the process ID of the group leader.
 
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  Ed Schouten <ed at fxq.nl>
  WWW: http://g-rave.nl/
 
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