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From: Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
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Subject: session leader
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Hello,

In writing some UNIX-for-doofi-style documentation, I've come across
something I'm not quite sure of.

Man ps includes

            s       The process is a session leader.

So, what exactly is a "session leader"?  A process with children?

==ml


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