Re: Two problems: GtkEntry focus without cursor - fork usage

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Peter Rottengatter wrote:

> The second problem is on using the fork() call to spawn another process.
> Defining a subroutine
> int test(void)
> {
>    if ((exec_child = fork()) != 0)
>      {
>         return ((exec_child == -1) ? TRUE : FALSE);
>       }
>
>    exit (0);
>  }
> one would expect that by calling it spawns a child that doesn't do much but
> terminate immediately without affecting the main process. This is what it 
> does if it is called from main() before gtk_init. If it is called from main() 
> after that point, it appears to work alright, however the app terminates at
> the moment gtk_main is called, without any window appearing. If it is called
> from a button-clicked handler (which was my original intention), the entire
> application terminates at the moment the child calls exit(0). This is evident
> from inserting a sleep(10) before the exit call.

http://www.gtk.org/faq/#AEN472

/ Alex