Le 31 mars 2010 à 05:18, John Harte a écrit :

> 
> On Mar 30, 2010, at 4:01 PM, McLaughlin, Michael P. wrote:
> 
>> I have a Cocoa app (Leopard) which launches several Foundation Tool subtasks
>> (since threads are not sufficient in this case).  Currently, I terminate
>> these subtasks via the app-delegate method
>> 
>> -(NSApplicationTerminateReply)applicationShouldTerminate:(NSApplication
>> *)sender
>> 
>> This works provided one Quits the main app using the Quit menu item.
>> However, if I force-quit or if I abort using the Stop icon in Xcode, then
>> the main app terminates without terminating the subtasks.
>> 
>> Is there a more reliable hook (e.g., delegate method) that would always get
>> called even on force-quit or Stop from Xcode so that these subtasks would
>> always get terminated?  [Otherwise, I have to terminate them from Activity
>> Monitor.]
>> 
> 
> I use kqueue in the child process. Kick off a thread and wait for the parent 
> to terminate.
> 
> 
> int main (int argc, char* const argv[]) {
>       // Start a thread to watch for parent termination
>       pthread_t thread;
>       int error = pthread_create (&thread, 0, WatchForTermination, 0);
>       .
>       .
>       .
> 
> void* WatchForTermination (void* arg) {       
>       pid_t ppid = getppid ();        // get parent pid
> 
>       int kq = kqueue ();
>       if (kq != -1) {
>               struct kevent procEvent;        // wait for parent to exit
>               EV_SET (&procEvent,             // kevent
>                               ppid,                   // ident
>                               EVFILT_PROC,    // filter
>                               EV_ADD,                 // flags
>                               NOTE_EXIT,              // fflags
>                               0,                              // data
>                               0);                             // udata
> 
>               kevent (kq, &procEvent, 1, &procEvent, 1, 0);
>       }
>       printf ("Terminating--Parent Process Terminated\n");
>       exit (0);                       
>       return 0;
> }


What does getppid() returns if the parent dies before the child reach this 
point ? 


-- Jean-Daniel




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