From: pjfarley3 AT escape DOT com (Peter J. Farley III)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: libc question: Why no setpgrp()?
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Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 03:34:12 GMT
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

I ask because a unix configure script I'm running wants to test
whether getpgrp takes no argument, and the test program it tries to
run uses the setpgrp() function.  Needless to say, the compile fails,
and configure takes its default value, which assumes that getpgrp()
*does* take an argument, whereas DJGPP's getpgrp() does *not* take an
argument.

Was this function just overlooked, or is it impossible to define
suitably for the DJGPP environment?

I can take this over to djgpp-workers if you think that is a more
appropriate forum.  If someone can tell me how the function is
supposed to work, I'd be willing to try to implement a suitable
version.

Right now, I'd just like to be able to add a "working" function to
libc so this configure script will get the correct result.

TIA for any info or advice you can offer.

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