Re: pango_layout_set_text not returning?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Jason Tackaberry <tack auc ca> writes: 
> Anyway, I believe the problem is a race condition with the fork -- or
> more specifically, the handler for SIG_CHLD.  I'm doing gtk+ things
> inside the handler, which of course can interrupt other gtk functions
> and, I presume, cause some internal inconsistency.

Yeah, that would cause reentrancy. You can't do stuff in signal
handlers. Well, only very very limited stuff.
 
> So perhaps in lieu of that, I'll use a pipe(), add an input handler, and
> just have the child write to the pipe when it's done.  That way the
> parent's flow is serialized.

Yep, that's a good approach.

Havoc