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Stop calling system calls "function calls". Use "The .Fn system call" a-la "The .Nm utility". When referring to a non-BSD implementation in the HISTORY section, call syscall a function, to be safe.
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.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
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.\" @(#)getpgrp.2 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd June 4, 1993
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.Dt GETPGRP 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm getpgrp
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.Nd get process group
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In unistd.h
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.Ft pid_t
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.Fn getpgrp void
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.Ft pid_t
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.Fn getpgid "pid_t pid"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The process group of the current process is returned by
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.Fn getpgrp .
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The process group of the process identified by
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.Fa pid
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is returned by
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.Fn getpgid .
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If
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.Fa pid
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is zero,
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.Fn getpgid
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returns the process group of the current process.
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.Pp
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Process groups are used for distribution of signals, and
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by terminals to arbitrate requests for their input: processes
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that have the same process group as the terminal are foreground
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and may read, while others will block with a signal if they attempt
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to read.
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.Pp
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This system call is thus used by programs such as
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.Xr csh 1
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to create
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process groups
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in implementing job control.
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The
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.Fn tcgetpgrp
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and
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.Fn tcsetpgrp
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calls
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are used to get/set the process group of the control terminal.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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The
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.Fn getpgrp
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system call always succeeds.
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Upon successful completion, the
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.Fn getpgid
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system call returns the process group of the specified process;
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otherwise, it returns a value of \-1 and sets
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.Va errno
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to indicate the error.
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.Sh ERRORS
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The
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.Fn getpgid
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system call
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will succeed unless:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er ESRCH
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there is no process whose process ID equals
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.Fa pid
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr getsid 2 ,
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.Xr setpgid 2 ,
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.Xr termios 4
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn getpgrp
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system call appeared in
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.Bx 4.0 .
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The
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.Fn getpgid
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system call is derived from its usage in
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.At V.4 .
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Fn getpgrp
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system call is expected to conform to
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.St -p1003.1-90 .
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.Sh COMPATIBILITY
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This version of
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.Fn getpgrp
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differs from past Berkeley versions by not taking a
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.Fa "pid_t pid"
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argument.
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This incompatibility is required by
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.St -p1003.1-90 .
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.Pp
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From the
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.St -p1003.1-90
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Rationale:
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.Pp
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.Bx 4.3
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provides a
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.Fn getpgrp
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system call that returns the process group ID for a specified process.
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Although this function is used to support job control, all known
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job-control shells always specify the calling process with this
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function.
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Thus, the simpler
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.At V
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.Fn getpgrp
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suffices, and the added complexity of the
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.Bx 4.3
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.Fn getpgrp
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has been omitted from POSIX.1.
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The old functionality is available from the
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.Fn getpgid
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system call.
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