You can always just ccall fork. Not portable but it should work. On Sunday, January 10, 2016, Thomas S Hatch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you for the confirmation. One valid point in the Linux world is that > is daemons are being started via systemd there is little need for the old > pid fork anyway as systemd manages the process regardless and can be > started with the right mode. > With that said, I will simply not bother with daemonization in Julia at > all, and adopt a policy of "it is no longer really needed" thanks! > On Jan 9, 2016 23:08, "Isaiah Norton" <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> Am I correct in this assumption and I just need to wait for Julia to be >>> able to fork()? Or have I missed something in the documentation? >> >> >> Yes, see https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/8295 >> and https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/985#issuecomment-54837219 >> >> On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 11:34 PM, Thomas Hatch <[email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: >> >>> As far as I can tell you can't fork a process in Julia yet, which would >>> preclude one from doing a Unix double pid fork to daemonize a process. >>> >>> Am I correct in this assumption and I just need to wait for Julia to be >>> able to fork()? Or have I missed something in the documentation? >>> >>> Thanks, and you may hear me say this a few more times, but I think Julia >>> is the absolute, most fantastic language out there! >>> >> >>
