[Qt-interest] Is it safe to fork() after an app.exec()

[Will Rutherdale (rutherw)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com 
> [mailto:qt-interest-bounces at trolltech.com] On Behalf Of 
> Thiago Macieira
> If you fork() and you have any sockets or files or other such 
> resources 
> open, you must make sure that only one of the two processes 
> ever touches 
> those resources.
> 
> The easiest and best way to guarantee that is to get either 
> the parent or 
> the child process to call _exit(2). That is really with the 
> underscore, 
> not exit(3).

Thanks.  I'll do that, along with the usual daemon setup steps.

-Will