Re: [Chicken-users] Spawn process from a thread (ie in awful)

[Peter Bex]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:15:36PM -0700, Thomas Hintz wrote:
> Greetings!

Greetings!

> I don't seem to be able to spawn a child process from a thread and have the
> process continue executing after the parent process terminates. This
> happens if the thread that spawns the child process is still running when
> the parent process is terminated.

I think this is normal Unix behavior; you need to set up a new process
group to avoid getting killed if the parent is killed.  It's basic
daemonization.

Cheers,
Peter
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