XWinrc configurable server (menus/icons)

Earle F. Philhower III earle@ziplabel.com
Thu Aug 7 02:23:00 GMT 2003


Howdy Christopher...

At 09:57 PM 8/6/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> >a) Closes all fds on the fork()'d process
>It *may* be helpful to call setsid() at this point, after you've closed
>the file descriptors.

I'm not really up on cygwin's process model, what would the setsid() call
do?  I have read the man page and I'm still not sure what's a session ID or
why I'd want a new one...

-Earle F. Philhower, III
  earle@ziplabel.com
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