Re: Run Daemon from my user interface

["John (J5) Palmieri" <johnp martianrock com>]

On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 17:04, Thomas Keaney wrote:
> I want to read and write data to a file continuously so I guess it would
> have to ba a daemon. Where could I get more info on this function? Cheers

Wouldn't you want to use threads for this since it will only run for as
long as your program is running for?

--
J5

> Regards,
> Thomas Keaney
> 4 CSSE
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tristan Van Berkom" <vantr touchtunes com>
> To: "Thomas Keaney" <se40319 cs may ie>
> Cc: <gtk-app-devel-list gnome org>
> Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 9:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Run Daemon from my user interface
>
>
> > Thomas Keaney wrote:
> >  > How would I run a daemon from my user interface?
> >
> > you can use g_spawn_async to start your executable
> > and you can "terminate" it using the `kill' system call,
> > it is recommendable to try `SIGTERM' a few times before
> > using the more violent `SIGKILL' (this is what most systems
> > I know of do at shutdown time to stop daemon services).
> >
> > Does it really have to be a daemon ?
> >
> >  > I want to run a program from within my interface and let this
> >  > continue to run in the background until I terminate it by
> >  > clicking on a button again from within my user interface.
> >
> > You can spawn it, establish an IPC... and at termination time,
> > politly ask your application to quit, and then proceed with
> > waitpid() to reap your zombie (but I think that g_spawn_async
> > takes care of that for you).
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> >                                     -Tristan
>
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