Am Donnerstag, 17. Oktober 2013, 14:18:34 schrieb Bill Hoffman: > On 10/17/2013 1:52 PM, Pedro Navarro wrote: > > Ok, I have the patch working and I'm going to send it soon. One > > question, is it possible to launch a detached process from within CMake? > > If I use EXECUTE_PROCESS to start p4d, CMake waits for it to finish so > > -for now- I'm launching the Perforce daemon outside CMake. > > It is not possible to do this. One work around is to put the start of > the process in a shell script or bat file that is used to run the ctest > script which is basically what you are doing. :)
We should think if this should be something that is needed. Running some sort of background process is a common pattern for all sorts of tests. Often really detaching is not needed, It is usually sufficient to have one process running in the background while the tests runs. Eike
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