Re: setsid

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark J. Reed [mailto:markjreed / mail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 11:39 AM
> To: ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: setsid
<snip>
> According to the setsid(2) man page:
> 
> ERRORS
>      The setsid() function will fail if:
> 
>      EPERM The calling process is already a process group leader,
>            or  the  process group  ID of a process other than the
>            calling process matches the process  ID of the calling
>            process.
> 
> So it's failing because the Ruby process is already a pgroup leader.
> 

In other words, fork first. :)

Regards,

Dan