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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!barmar
  2. From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
  4. Subject: Re: Question about controlling processes
  5. Date: 25 Jan 1993 05:11:31 GMT
  6. Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
  7. Lines: 17
  8. Message-ID: <1jvsq3INN642@early-bird.think.com>
  9. References: <C1BLso.220H@austin.ibm.com>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com
  11.  
  12. In article <C1BLso.220H@austin.ibm.com> subra@bynar.austin.ibm.com (Sivarama Subramanian) writes:
  13. >1). What is a controlling process?
  14. >2) How to make a set of processes belong to foregound and background
  15. >    processes?
  16.  
  17. I haven't heard the term "controlling process".  There's a "controlling
  18. terminal", and a process can be a "session leader" or "process group
  19. leader", and these are related.
  20.  
  21. This stuff is described in great detail in the book "Advanced Programming
  22. in the Unix Environment" by W. Richard Stevens.
  23.  
  24. -- 
  25. Barry Margolin
  26. System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
  27.  
  28. barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
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