[Padre-dev] Mistake in padre (executable)

Cezary Morga cm at therek.net
Fri Apr 3 07:51:34 PDT 2009


Gabor Szabo wrote:
> > I don't see the value of auto-backgrounding of padre:
> > - most unix processes don't do it.
> > - it's easy and know how to background a process (&).
> > - it's handy not to background for a user to debug a problem.
> > - anyway, regular users will launch padre from an icon shortcut from
> > they Desktop Environment.
>
> I commented out the fork.

How about removing it completely? Auto-backgrounding is unintuitive for most 
UNIX users and leaving it commented out suggests that there might be some use 
for it.
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Cezary Morga
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