fork()/exec() dumping

["Scott." <scottf scs unr edu>]

i need to spawn a non-gtk child from within a gtk app.

using the regular fork() and exec() to execute the other application
results in a core dump. i remember some issues within gtk need to be
addressed before the other program can be executed, but i'm not finding
the info anywhere.

any help is appreciated. :)

-=Scott