Re: fork

["Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

+----- From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
| > Andrea Bosio wrote:
| > > 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.
| 
| When you fork, you dup all the X fds.  Are you trying to do X calls in
| the child?
+--->8

May I suggest that GNOME (or Gtk+, probably) should have a helper function
which does a fork() and then safely disables X, esd, etc. in the child?
Or at minimum Gtk+ should set close-on-exec on its fds.

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