Re: glut/freeglut and fork()

[Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net>]

Francesco Orsenigo wrote:

> > I guess I'd make sure there are no timers or anything running when I
> > forked and I might even un-register all the GLUT callbacks before doing the
> > fork.
> Done, and it seems at least functional.... still lots of things to fix.
> I had to remove the call to atexit(glutLeaveGameMode), that was giving me 
> troubles on server thread exit(), but is very useful....
> I'll try to restore the game mode every time the server connection is lost.
It seems to me that a more natural approach would be to have the server be
the main program, have it immediately start a client, then the client can
decide either to connect to the local server that started it - or to some
remote server off on the network.

That way the server never ran GLUT at all, never opened an OpenGL rendering
context, etc, etc.

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