From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 9 18:23:51 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA20813 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jul 1995 18:23:51 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA20807 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 1995 18:23:48 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA09774; Sun, 9 Jul 1995 18:19:54 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199507100119.SAA09774@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: new getsid(2) system call for freebsd... To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault) Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 18:19:54 -0700 (PDT) Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, ukkonen@aphrodite.funet.fi, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507092035.QAA16930@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Jul 9, 95 04:35:09 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 680 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > Julian Elischer writes: > > > I notice however that systems that are moving towards posix > > are all implimenting this.. > > (osf and solaris to name two) > > I assume therefore (not having POSIX docs) that it might be > > 1/ common > > 2/ required > > getsid() is not POSIX. And the original thread said it _might_ become XPG required. Well, when we go for X/Open branding and when it _is_ part of XPG we should do it, before then, it is just an unportable hack, IMHO. Leave getsid out for that simple reason. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD