Re: fork & exec portable between Linux GTK+ & Win32 GTK+ immediately w/ no work??

From: Chris Seberino <seberino spawar navy mil>
To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
Cc: gtk-list gnome org
Subject: Re: fork & exec portable between Linux GTK+ & Win32 GTK+ immediately w/ no work??
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 00:58:47 -0800

> Chris Seberino <seberino spawar navy mil> writes:
> > fork & exec portable between Linux GTK+ & Win32 GTK+ immediately w/ no work??
> >
> 
> Nope. fork() is a UNIX thing.
>  
> g_spawn_* may work on both, in GLib 1.3.x.

Ouch, this one hurt.  I will hope that g_spawn_* has
an adequate wrapper in Win32 port then.
Forking is a pretty basic operation.  Win32 must
have some analog for glib I hope!

Chris

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