Manpage for getsid(2).

2 files changed, 80 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/Makefile.inc b/lib/libc/sys/Makefile.inc
index 60056df..d074a87 100644
--- a/lib/libc/sys/Makefile.inc
+++ b/lib/libc/sys/Makefile.inc
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #	@(#)Makefile.inc	8.3 (Berkeley) 10/24/94
-#	$Id: Makefile.inc,v 1.35 1997/08/19 06:23:45 peter Exp $
+#	$Id: Makefile.inc,v 1.36 1997/08/19 07:00:53 peter Exp $
 
 # sys sources
 .PATH: ${.CURDIR}/../libc/${MACHINE}/sys ${.CURDIR}/../libc/sys
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ MAN2+=	sys/accept.2 sys/access.2 sys/acct.2 sys/adjtime.2 sys/bind.2 \
 	sys/getdirentries.2 sys/getdtablesize.2 sys/getfh.2 sys/getfsstat.2 \
 	sys/getgid.2 sys/getgroups.2 sys/getitimer.2 sys/getlogin.2 \
 	sys/getpeername.2 sys/getpgrp.2 sys/getpid.2 sys/getpriority.2 \
-	sys/getrlimit.2 sys/getrusage.2 sys/getsockname.2 sys/getsockopt.2 \
+	sys/getrlimit.2 sys/getrusage.2 sys/getsid.2 \
+	sys/getsockname.2 sys/getsockopt.2 \
 	sys/gettimeofday.2 sys/getuid.2 sys/intro.2 sys/ioctl.2 \
 	sys/issetugid.2 sys/kill.2 \
 	sys/ktrace.2 sys/link.2 sys/listen.2 sys/lseek.2 sys/mkdir.2 \
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/getsid.2 b/lib/libc/sys/getsid.2
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+.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Peter Wemm <peter@freebsd.org>
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
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+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.\"	$Id$
+.\"
+.Dd August 19, 1997
+.Dt GETSID 2
+.Os BSD 4.2
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm getsid
+.Nd get process session
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <unistd.h>
+.Ft pid_t
+.Fn getsid "pid_t pid"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The session ID of the process identified by
+.Fa pid
+is returned by
+.Fn getsid .
+If
+.Fa pid
+is zero,
+.Fn getsid
+returns the session ID of the current process.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+Upon successful completion, the function
+.Fn getsid
+returns the session ID of
+the specified process; otherwise, it returns a value of -1 and
+sets errno to indicate an error.
+.Sh ERRORS
+.Fn getsid
+will succeed unless:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er ESRCH
+if there is no process with a process ID equal to
+.Fa pid .
+.El
+.Pp
+Note that an implementation may restrict this function call to
+processes within the same session ID as the calling process.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr getpgrp 2 ,
+.Xr getpgid 2 ,
+.Xr setpgid 2 ,
+.Xr setsid 2 ,
+.Xr termios 4
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Fn setsid
+function call appeared in
+.Fx 3.0 .
+The
+.Fn getsid
+function call is derived from it's usage in
+.At V .