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tladuke

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Registered: 2009-07-23

Posts: 176

replace fgets with what in main loop of pthread c program?

I'm modifying this program. It starts some pthreads and then does (in main)

...
while(1){

                fgets(line,75,stdin);
                if(line[0] == 'q' || line[0] == 'Q')
                        break;

}
exit_flag = 1;
pthread_cancel(foo_thread);

I want to be able to background this program and have it respond to SIGTERM etc. Right now it will only quit while backgrounded if I do SIGKILL. Is there something I can just throw in place of fgets? or do I need to do a little rewrite? I don't need any keyboard input. I'm trying to make it a daemon.

Last edited by tladuke (2012-09-28 22:38:16)

SahibBommelig

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2010-05-28

Posts: 80

Re: replace fgets with what in main loop of pthread c program?

You could look into the pause(3) call.

(And write a signal handler that responds to the signals you want)

Last edited by SahibBommelig (2012-09-29 10:24:52)

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