glib r7317 - trunk

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Author: tml
Date: Thu Aug  7 15:40:03 2008
New Revision: 7317
URL: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/glib?rev=7317&view=rev

Log:
2008-08-07  Tor Lillqvist  <tml novell com>

	* configure.in: Output comment clarifying GPid semantics to
	glibconfig.h.

	* glibconfig.h.win32.in: Ditto here.



Modified:
   trunk/ChangeLog
   trunk/configure.in
   trunk/glibconfig.h.win32.in

Modified: trunk/configure.in
==============================================================================
--- trunk/configure.in	(original)
+++ trunk/configure.in	Thu Aug  7 15:40:03 2008
@@ -2951,6 +2951,12 @@
 
 #define G_MODULE_SUFFIX "$g_module_suffix"
 
+/* A GPid is an abstraction for a process "handle". It is *not* a 
+ * process identifier, the type that getpid() returns. GPid is used in
+ * GLib only in gspawn.h and gmain.h. On POSIX there are no "handles"
+ * as such, but on Windows a GPid is a handle to a process, a kind of
+ * pointer, not a process identifier.
+ */
 typedef $g_pid_type GPid;
 
 G_END_DECLS

Modified: trunk/glibconfig.h.win32.in
==============================================================================
--- trunk/glibconfig.h.win32.in	(original)
+++ trunk/glibconfig.h.win32.in	Thu Aug  7 15:40:03 2008
@@ -241,6 +241,12 @@
 
 #define G_MODULE_SUFFIX "dll"
 
+/* A GPid is an abstraction for a process "handle". It is *not* a 
+ * process identifier, the type that getpid() returns. GPid is used in
+ * GLib only in gspawn.h and gmain.h. On POSIX there are no "handles"
+ * as such, but on Windows a GPid is a handle to a process, a kind of
+ * pointer, not a process identifier.
+ */
 typedef void * GPid;
 
 G_END_DECLS