Pass data to a subprocess

[Grant Edwards]

On 2012-08-01, Laszlo Nagy <gandalf at shopzeus.com> wrote:
>>
>> As I wrote "I found many nice things (Pipe, Manager and so on), but
>> actually even
>> this seems to work:" yes I did read the documentation.
> Sorry, I did not want be offensive.
>>
>> I was just surprised that it worked better than I expected even
>> without Pipes and Queues, but now I understand why..
>>
>> Anyway now I would like to be able to detach subprocesses to avoid the
>> nasty code reloading that I was talking about in another thread, but
>> things get more tricky, because I can't use queues and pipes to
>> communicate with a running process that it's noit my child, correct?
>>
> Yes, I think that is correct.

I don't understand why detaching a child process on Linux/Unix would
make IPC stop working.  Can somebody explain?

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