On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 16:29 +0200, Markus E L wrote:

> GTK and the X11 library without doubt open a plethora of file
> descriptors. If now you fork() in a gtk event handler -- can you tell
> me what happens to those file descriptors? 

No, so don't do it. Instead, start a separate process,
and send it a message from the GTK event handler.
Then THAT process does the fork/exec to start the daemon.

If you want to spawn a demon, get another demon to do it 
for you:)

I suggest OP examine:

DAEMON.C(1)  

and

libslack(3)

[which was written by one of my friends <raf at raf dot org>]



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