[Padre-dev] Mistake in padre (executable)

[Steffen Mueller]

Hi Gabor, hi all,

Gabor Szabo wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Offer Kaye <offer.kaye at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also, could someone explain please (or even better add comment in the
>> code) what is the purpose of the fork() and using threads?
> 
> fork() is for putting the process in the background in unix.
> 
> The threads, well, Padre uses lots of processes that are working while you type.
> We used threads to allow this. See Padre::Task and friends.

Offer does put the finger on a sore spot here. fork+threads in the same
program is bad. However, I don't know how one can (portably, without
shell involvement) detach a process from the shell where it was executed
without resorting to fork.

Suggestions on how to replace the fork would be very, very welcome.

Best regards,
Steffen