Re: [gtk-list] Re: Re

[James Bailie <jazzturk home com>]

On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:14:40AM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Sep 1999 16:23:55 -0700, Theodore Roth wrote:

> That's no problem. If the socket to the X server is marked close-on-exec,
> it will automatically be closed at exec(). Otherwise, the exec()-ed
> program will have an extra open file descriptor (without knowing it) which
> will be closes as soon as it exits. Nothing will go wrong, because the
> original GTK cleanup routines will not be called.

One may also explicitly close the descriptor before the exec() like so:

#include<Xlib.h>
#include<gdk/gdkx.h>

close( ConnectionNumber( gdk_display ));

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James Bailie

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