Re: fork

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Also, you must use _exit() to exit the child process, as exit() performs
some cleanups that should only be performed by the parent.

James Henstridge.

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On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> > Andrea Bosio wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello all.
> > >
> > > Why can't I fork in my gnome applications?
> > >
> > > After a fork I get a lot of:
> > > Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x15a)!
> > > and normally the app crashes.
> > >
> > > How can I do something like a fork in a gnome app?
> 
> When you fork, you dup all the X fds.  Are you trying to do X calls in
> the child?
> 
> 	Jeff
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