Gdk vs. XCloseDisplay

[Torsten Landschoff <t landschoff gmx net>]

Hi *, 

I got a question regarding gtk_main namely how to get progress reports from 
a subprocess displayed.

Of course the answer is to use the input facility of gtk which works quite 
well. But you need to call _exit from the child process instead of just 
exiting. I don't think this should be regarded as a clean solution. 

For me this is a bug in GTK. The GDK code registers a function using 
atexit which calls XCloseDisplay. Of course this is also called from 
the child which leads to the problem.

I think glib should have a wrapper for fork to handle such cases so 
you just call g_fork and the gui stuff is only deinitialized in the parent.

Opinions?

    Torsten

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Torsten Landschoff           Bluehorn@IRC               <torsten@debian.org>
           Debian Developer and Quality Assurance Committee Member