Re: [ros-users] ROS nodes & SIGINT handler

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Author: Josh Faust
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To: ros-users
Subject: Re: [ros-users] ROS nodes & SIGINT handler
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Gautier Dumonteil <
> wrote:

> I saw that rosbag is multithreaded but I was not too aware that fork()
> without exec() is dangerous in that case.
> Anyway, I try fork()/exec() combination and it works fine.
>
>

Even fork()/exec() can be problematic. If you're interested:

http://www.linuxprogrammingblog.com/threads-and-fork-think-twice-before-using-them
<http://www.linuxprogrammingblog.com/threads-and-fork-think-twice-before-using-them>
https://www.lsgalilei.org/glibc-doc/Threads-and-Fork.html

Josh