Fork()

[Bohica]

Nielm, Andy, or whomever...

Is the fork() function safe in terms of disposing the thread when it is no longer needed?

If I fork() -- and do some function or wait in a loop -- when I break that loop and run out of commands under the fork, does sage handle the 'threads' associated?

[nielm]

I hope so I always assumed it did!

[Opus4]

I would think it has to be safe in terms of cleaning up after itself, since there is nothing that I know of to EndFork, UnFork, DeFork, WashFork, etc. When the widget chain in the Fork ends, that's the end of that thread.

BTW: I recently asked about using an attribute that was defined under a Menu or OptionsMenu. I have some Forks in AfterMenuLoad hooks that use such local attributes/variables, so I wanted to confirm what would happen to the variables used in the Fork if the Menu/OptionsMenu were exited before the Fork did & was told that it should be safe, since the variables shouldn't be disposed until after the Fork was done with them.

- Andy

[Narflex]

Java's garbage collection automatically handles cleanup when those threads terminate. Nothing to worry about.