Re: How to run in background through forking in Lua?

["Gunnar Zötl" <gz@...>]

Hi,

try luaposix or nixio, but feature a fork().

Gunnar


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Betreff: How to run in background through forking in Lua?
Gesendet: Mo, 03. Jan 2011
Von: Steve Litt<slitt@troubleshooters.com>

> Hi all,
> 
> My UMENU program (perl version) can run a program in the background like
> this:
> 
> ./ufork.pl command_to_be_run_in_background
> 
> Here's the code of ufork.pl:
> =======================================
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict;
> 
> use POSIX qw(setsid);
> 
> sub launch(@) {
>     my(@args) = @_;
>     unless (fork) {
>         setsid;             # set child process to new session
>         unless (fork) {     # Create a grandchild
>             close STDIN;    # close std files
>             close STDOUT;
>             close STDERR;
>             exec @args;     # exec the x program
>         }
>     }
>     sleep(1);
> }
> 
> launch(@ARGV);
> =======================================
> 
> In my Lua readings I haven't come across a fork() command. Is there a way I
> 
> can rewrite my ufork.pl in Lua? If not, is there a different way to do it in
> 
> Lua? If not that, I spoze I could do it in C and make sure it's statically 
> compiled so as to be distributable as a binary.
> 
> Anyway, anyone know how to do this in Lua?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> SteveT
> 
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> 
> 
> 

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