On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Venkateswararao Jujjuri <jvrao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [ ... stuff .. ] it appears to me that you're completely confused about the relationship between threads and processes. the chroot(2) call changes the root dir for the entire process. there is almost never a reason for a program to use clone(2) - it exists to implement other things like fork() and pthreads. unless you are doing something very esoteric, do not call clone(2). you should be calling fork(2) to create a new process. you need to read standard books on unix programming or stuff online that describe the "double fork" trick to create demons correctly. you don't demonize threads, you demonize a process, and demonize really just means (a) its not running in the foregound (b) it won't exit when its parent exits. double forking accomplishes this without creating zombies (and you can read up on that online too). your problems are basic posix/unix programming issues and really have nothing to do with gtk or glib. --p _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
