Re: How to run in background through forking in Lua?
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- Subject: Re: How to run in background through forking in Lua?
- From: "Gunnar Zötl" <gz@...>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 09:49:42 +0100 (MET)
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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