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Re: XWinrc configurable server (menus/icons)

Howdy Christopher...

At 09:57 PM 8/6/2003 -0400, you wrote: 
>a) Closes all fds on the fork()'d process
It *may* be helpful to call setsid() at this point, after you've closed
the file descriptors.


I'm not really up on cygwin's process model, what would the setsid() call
do?  I have read the man page and I'm still not sure what's a session ID or
why I'd want a new one...

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