Hello Georg, On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:29 AM, <gsauthof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > setpgid(2) and exit(3) use the term 'orphaned process group', but they > don't define it. > > And if I am not missing it, the term is not defined in a referenced man > page, either. > > Suggested fix: add the defintion of 'orphaned process group' to the 'right' > place(s) (man-page). Thanks for your report. I made the following patches for man-pages- 3.23. Cheers, Michael --- a/man2/setpgid.2 +++ b/man2/setpgid.2 @@ -293,6 +293,12 @@ signal followed by a .B SIGCONT signal will be sent to each process in the newly orphaned process group. +.\" exit.3 refers to the following text: +An orphaned process group is one in which the parent of +every member of process group is either itself also a member +of the process group or is a member of a process group +in a different session (see also +.BR credentials (7)). .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR getuid (2), .BR setsid (2), --- a/man3/exit.3 +++ b/man3/exit.3 @@ -159,8 +159,12 @@ signal followed by a .B SIGCONT signal will be sent to each process in this process group. +See +.BR setpgid (2) +for an explanation of orphaned process groups. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR _exit (2), +.BR setpgid (2), .BR wait (2), .BR atexit (3), .BR on_exit (3), -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Watch my Linux system programming book progress to publication! http://blog.man7.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
