Re: [gtk-list] Re: Re

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Theodore Roth wrote:
> 
> Since you are overlaying the new programs memory on top of the old, and
> starting execution from the beginning, I thought this would be safe. Am
> I wrong or right here?
> 

It should be OK except that exec()'d program shares file descriptors with
the parent, you will probably want to look at the gnome_execute_async()
function in libgnome/gnome-exec.c - it sets all the descriptors
close-on-exec.

Of course there could be some other problem...

Havoc