Re: Forking from Gtk

[G Hasse <gorhas raditex se>]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 10:17:53AM +0200, Gabriele Greco wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:03 PM, G Hasse <gorhas raditex se> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a small demo app. This works on FreeBSD but I can't
> > get to work on Linux. I know that in Linux setsid will fail
> > if the child has the same session_id as the parent. So on
> > Linux you must fork twice. But it also seems that the parent
> > must do an exit. And I don't want that. The code is not very
> > long - so I include it here.
>
>
>
> I think you should avoid fork and use one of the functions glib provide to
> spawn processes (
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/stable/glib-Spawning-Processes.html), or
> a thread if you need to simply call a function.
>
> In general using fork() in a GUI program is a bad idea.

But I realy NEED to create a longlived process (running for a week or
month) and be able to quit the GUI whenever I like. The glib is
just a wrapper - and i don't se the solution...

I realy WANT to lose contact with the child process. And there
is to mutch data from the GUI to pass it on the command line...

-- 
Göran Hasse

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