kcrash, fork, and stdout/stderr

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday, 5 December 2017 04:12:30 PST David Faure wrote:
> I see. But how should one implement a crash handler that autorestarts an
> app, then, in a "standalone application" use case, i.e. no kdeinit or other
> daemon running in the background?

Wait, why are you forking in the first place?

Just exec the process again. It will replace the current process without 
closing the pipes. The parent won't notice a thing.

Of course, that may be a problem: the parent may see the output from the child 
process again.

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   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center