Re: Start a process from within a signal handler

["John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jörg Sommer <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>can I start a new process while I'm in a signal handler?

Not in the current implementation.  Have you considered running a
process that invokes the actual processes you want to run?  The
invoking process could start a new one if desired.  As a trivial
example, this will run latex and after it exits, run dvips:

    #!/bin/sh    
    # Run LaTeX and than dvips
    latex foo.tex
    dvips foo.dvi

--John


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