Re: [KylixGroup] Migration of an NT service app to Kylix

hi,

i'm not a linux specialist, but afaik there is no such thing as a service with linux. any application 
can be run as service, and any service is 'jsut' an application.

to run a background job, you can:
start it as background job, by adding a ampersand to the command:
./myapp -param1=test &

or, fork out yourself. i've done that once with kylix. you'll get back a handle, or zero. depending 
on that, the thread is the newly created thread, or the thread is the initiating process.
now one thread just terminates, and the other keeps running. this way you give control back to 
the command line while still running in the background.

be carefull with opened file handles, i believe they are not all copied/valid in the new thread. 
other global vars can just be accessed.

h:=fork();
if h=0 then //this is the new thread
  dojob
else
  begin
    writeln ('forked in background, id: '+inttostr(h));
    terminate; //return to command line
  end;

fork declared in Libc.pas

regards

rene

Op vrijdag, september 26. 2003 14:52:44 schreef "Denis Dupere" <[email protected]> : 
> Hi,
> 
> I have an NT service application that I want to migrate to Kylix.  It
> doesn't seem to have an implementation of TService in Kylix.  What can I
> do to migrate?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Denis Dupere
> 
> 
> 
> 
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