Re: [PATCH] use group_leader->pgrp (was Re: setpgid and threads)

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 21:17, Andrew Morton wrote:
> All other instances of foo->pgrp have been converted to process_group(foo),
> which is foo->group_leader->__pgrp.
> 
> Should setpgrp() in a thread affect the group leader?   It does...

Eh?  sys_setpgid() fails with EINVAL if another thread tries to change
the process group.  Oh, I see.  setpgrp() is a wrapper which passes
pid=0 to setpgid; sys_setpgid uses current->pid rather than
current->tgid, so it always uses the thread group leader's ID.  Looks OK
to me.

	J

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