On Thursday, 25 August 2016 at 07:32:29 UTC, Shachar Shemesh
wrote:
On 24/08/16 14:04, FreeSlave wrote:
Are there plans on adding something like spawnProcessDetached
that would
start processes completely independent from parent? I.e. in
other
process group and, what is important, with no need for wait.
On Posix that could be done via double fork technique. Not
sure about
Windows.
Double fork on Posix is, usually, used for something slightly
different. In particular, since you bring up the process group,
I think you mean daemonization.
Daemonization, however, does a bit more than create a new
process group and double forking.
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/d83ugn$265f$1...@digitaldaemon.com
has discussion and some code regarding this issue.
Shachar
It's not about daemonization only. Different process group is
needed to prevent signal distribution. Again, e.g. file manager
and launched application may want to not be connected in any way.
