getsid(0)
returns the session ID of the calling process.
getsid(p)
returns the session ID of the process with process ID
p.
(The session ID of a process is the process group ID of the
session leader.)
RETURN VALUE
On success, a session ID is returned.
On error, (pid_t) -1 will be returned, and
errno
is set appropriately.
ERRORS
EPERM
A process with process ID
p
exists, but it is not in the same session as the calling process,
and the implementation considers this an error.
ESRCH
No process with process ID
p
was found.
CONFORMING TO
SVr4, POSIX.1-2001.
NOTES
Linux does not return
EPERM.
Linux has this system call since Linux 1.3.44.
There is libc support since libc 5.2.19.
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