os.tcsetpgrp() - os

             
The method tcsetpgrp() sets the process group associated with the terminal given by fd (an open file descriptor as returned by os.open()) to pg.


fd -- This is the file descriptor.
pg -- This set the process group to pg.

Syntax

os.tcsetpgrp(fd, pg)

Example

# !/usr/bin/python

import os, sys

# Showing current directory 
print "Current working dir :%s" %os.getcwd()

# Changing dir to /dev/tty
fd = os.open("/dev/tty",os.O_RDONLY)

f = os.tcgetpgrp(fd)

# Showing the process group
print "the process group associated is: "
print f

# Setting the process group
os.tcsetpgrp(fd,2672)
print "done"

os.close(fd)
print "Closed the file successfully!!"

Output / Return Value

When we run above program, it produces following result:


Current working dir is :/tmp
the process group associated is:
2672
done
Closed the file successfully!!

Limitations

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Reference