Re: gtk in fork()ed process

[G Hasse <gh raditex se>]

On Wed, 1 May 2002, Oliver Rauch wrote:

> Hi.
>
> I am forking a gtk-program to start an external program.
> When the program start fails I want to display an error message
> with gtk. The display routine shall be run in the child process
> (I do not want to do any inter process comunication between
> child and parent process to let the parent process display the
> error message).

Ofcourse you should do process communication! Else you are doing a
bad design. Let one process handle all UI-stuff and do the hard
work in separate processes. You are in a Unix-environment and it
is quite natural to device applications in this way! I can post you
some examples if you want.

> There happen very strange things when the child tries to
> use gtk functions. I think gtk has to be re-initialized.

Yes - offcourse! This is the wrong way to do it!

GH

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