CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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jensengar
jensengar

Reputation: 6167

fork to new cygwin terminal

I have this program that forks and I was wondering how to get it to fork to a separate terminal so the parent and child would have their own windows and stop fighting each other. I am trying to accomplish this with cygwin, any ideas?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 230

Answers (1)

Some programmer dude
Some programmer dude

Reputation: 409432

The general answer is that it's not possible. However, it can be hacked around by using two different programs, one that does the fork, and then the child executes a new shell which might open a new window, and let that shell run the second program.

Or you can use something like ncurses to split the terminal window into two separate regions and use one region per process.

Upvotes: 1

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