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Re: fork() problem [message #18980 is a reply to message #18958]

Sun, 02 November 2008 22:55

mdelfede
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luzr wrote on Sun, 02 November 2008 16:37

Anyway, what is DOES NOT do is GUI in forked process. That might be the cause of crash.

If I understand fork docs correctly, that pesky socket will be duplicated. That means you will have two processes communicating with X11 instead of one - but for X11, it will still be a single process.

I guess there could be the problem.

Mirek

Yep, I've read that fork() just shares the file handles with both processes... if you close child (what happens with exit() function...) also the parent handles get closed.
BTW, that's not the problem in my small test app, it does crash BEFORE, even if I take off the PromptOK stuffs.

Ciao

Max

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