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GETSID

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
ERRORS
CONFORMING TO
SEE ALSO

NAME

getsid ? get session ID

SYNOPSIS

#include <unistd.h>

pid_t getsid(pid_t pid);

DESCRIPTION

getsid(0) returns the session ID of the calling process. getsid(p) returns the session ID of the process with process ID p.

ERRORS

On error, ?1 will be returned. The only error which can happen is ESRCH, when no process with process ID p was found.

CONFORMING TO

SVr4, which documents an additional EPERM error condition.

SEE ALSO

setsid(2)


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