setpgid function

Hi,

How can I use setpgid function in my shell program in order to
implement bg command.Could anybody give
me an example or brief idea.

Payel

Re: setpgid function

Payel wrote:
>
> How can I use setpgid function in my shell program in order to
> implement bg command.Could anybody give
> me an example or brief idea.

Perl's POSIX module has a setpgid function that you could use.

perl -MPOSIX -e"setpgid( $pid, $pgid )"


John
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Re: setpgid function

In article <1193686268.934428.172670@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com>,
Payel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> How can I use setpgid function in my shell program in order to
> implement bg command.Could anybody give
> me an example or brief idea.

See the responses in your other thread "Background process
implementation". Don't start two threads on the same question, it's
really confusing.

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