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

["Jason A. Pfeil" <pfeil nu cs fsu edu>]

If you are execing right after the fork, it doesn't matter anyway.  The
new process space is destroyed and replaced by pgp.


y
On 19 Jul 1998, Georg Greve wrote:

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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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