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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
.\" tiny changes from a man page by Charles Livingston).
.\" Modified Sun Jul 21 14:45:46 1996 <aeb@cwi.nl>
.\"
-.TH setsid 2 2023-03-30 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH setsid 2 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
setsid \- creates a session and sets the process group ID
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Standard C library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <unistd.h>
-.PP
+.P
.B pid_t setsid(void);
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -30,10 +30,10 @@ The calling process is the leader of the new session
The calling process also becomes
the process group leader of a new process group in the session
(i.e., its process group ID is made the same as its process ID).
-.PP
+.P
The calling process will be the only process in
the new process group and in the new session.
-.PP
+.P
Initially, the new session has no controlling terminal.
For details of how a session acquires a controlling terminal, see
.BR credentials (7).
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ A child created via
inherits its parent's session ID.
The session ID is preserved across an
.BR execve (2).
-.PP
+.P
A process group leader is a process whose process group ID equals its PID.
Disallowing a process group leader from calling
.BR setsid ()
@@ -78,14 +78,14 @@ and have the parent
.BR _exit (2),
while the child (which by definition can't be a process group leader) calls
.BR setsid ().
-.PP
+.P
If a session has a controlling terminal, and the
.B CLOCAL
flag for that terminal is not set,
and a terminal hangup occurs, then the session leader is sent a
.B SIGHUP
signal.
-.PP
+.P
If a process that is a session leader terminates, then a
.B SIGHUP
signal is sent to each process in the foreground