Re: [rust-dev] Fork in Rust

2014-03-17 Thread Daniel Micay
On 17/03/14 07:59 AM, John Mija wrote: > Is possible to fork/daemonize in Rust? Without problems due to the > interaction between fork(2) and threads. Forking in a daemon is only useful as a way to signal when the service is ready. A socket-activated daemon would be the modern way of doing it, as

Re: [rust-dev] Fork in Rust

2014-03-17 Thread Alex Crichton
I would recommend using io::process with the detach option set to true rather than invoking fork(). The green runtime is not fork-safe, and at this time we're not guaranteeing that the native runtime is fork-safe. On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 4:59 AM, John Mija wrote: > Is possible to fork/daemonize i

[rust-dev] Fork in Rust

2014-03-17 Thread John Mija
Is possible to fork/daemonize in Rust? Without problems due to the interaction between fork(2) and threads. ___ Rust-dev mailing list Rust-dev@mozilla.org https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev