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Prevent orphans #14

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jeroen opened this issue May 20, 2017 · 0 comments

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jeroen commented May 20, 2017 •

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library(sys)
# system2 dies along with the parent proc
eval_fork({system2("ping", "localhost", wait = FALSE); Sys.sleep(3)})

# pipe breaks when interrupted, but process lives on! (on OSX at least)
eval_fork(exec_wait("ping", "localhost"), timeout = 3)
  
# but eval_background escapes (because of setpgid())
eval_fork(exec_background("ping", "localhost"))

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