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46 .Fn getpgid "pid_t pid"
48 The process group of the current process is returned by
50 The process group of the
52 process is returned by
55 Process groups are used for distribution of signals, and
56 by terminals to arbitrate requests for their input: processes
57 that have the same process group as the terminal are foreground
58 and may read, while others will block with a signal if they attempt
61 This call is thus used by programs such as
65 in implementing job control.
71 are used to get/set the process group of the control terminal.
74 always succeeds, however
79 if there is no process with a process ID equal to
93 function call appeared in
97 function call is derived from its usage in
104 differs from past Berkeley versions by not taking a
107 This incompatibility is required by
117 function that returns the process group ID for a specified process.
118 Although this function is used to support job control, all known
119 job-control shells always specify the calling process with this
121 Thus, the simpler System V
123 suffices, and the added complexity of the
126 has been omitted from POSIX.1.
127 The old functionality is available from the