Re: [gtk-list] forking inside a GTK+ app

[Georg Greve <greve fusebox hanse de>]

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"Brian C. Lane" <nexus@tatoosh.com> writes:
> I'm sure this is a really dumb question. Is it possible to fork a
> child process after having run gtk_main()? In XfreeCD I fork off child
> processes before running gtk_main() and talk to them thru pipes, but in
> my new app (mirage, a PGP clipboard encryption tool) I need to fork off
> a pgp process from the main process at different times. Is this
> possible? 
>   Or do I need to fork a child before running gtk_main, then talk to
> that child and tell it to fork off the pgp grandchild? Ick!
>   The other option is to use linuxthreads, but that would limit the app
> to RH and debian users (and anyone who's threadsafed their other
> distribution of course).

I am doing it since version 1.3.0 of my Xlogmaster directly without
any hesitations and I am having no problems at all.

Later,
	Georg

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