[Adium-devl] Let's abandon disk images

[Peter Hosey]

On Mar 31, 2007, at 14:38:37, Ofri Wolfus wrote:
> 2. fork/exec.

There are two problems with this:
1. If the child process (ostensibly `diskutil eject` or something)  
tries to do the eject before its parent has exited, the parent's  
executable file and probably various resources are still in use, so  
the eject will fail.
2. Whenever the parent process exits, it will take the child process  
with it.

Problem 2 can be solved by using ptrace to detach from the child (I  
think—I've never tried). Alternatively, using signal(2) to block  
SIGHUP may work.

Problem 1 can be solved by using a shell script, which you could pass  
to exec:

	static const char eject_argv[][] = {
		"bash", "-c",
		/*Something like the script Graham suggested*/,
		NULL
	};
	pid_t pid = execvp("bash", eject_argv);

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