On 05Sep2008 19:40, Konstantin Svist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I have an odd application that has threads which hang around until all | child processes have finished executing. | I'd like to create a background process that isn't a child of said | thread, so that the thread can exit.
Fork twice when you make the children. The immediate child should exit. The grandchild should exec your "child" process. Since its parent exited (the imediate child) it becomes inherited by init. Your main process will be fine. However, I would dig a bit into why the threads hang around (if you have the source, or can play with strace and lsof). Why? Because it is possible for a process to have children unknowingly. Like this: sleep 3600 & # makes "sleep" a child of the current process exec your-app ... # now you app has "sleep" as a child Provided you started the app itself as a child (no "exec") you're fine. Just something to keep in mind. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers -- fedora-list mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
