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[gtk-list] gdk_fork() or the like ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ian Main)
Tue Jul 8 01:01:54 1997
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 22:02:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ian Main <slow@intergate.bc.ca>
Reply-To: Ian Main <slow@intergate.bc.ca>
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970707150136.6504A-100000@travelers.mail.cornell.edu>
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Hello all,
When helping with gzilla, we ran into a problem with forking in gtk apps..
the connection to the X server is kept in the forked child. I tried
closing all file descriptors in the child, but on exit, you recieve an
"xio error".
I'm just wandering what y'all think of a gtk/gdk (I figured gdk cause it's
not really a widget thing..) fork call that will create a child that has
no affiliation with X for doing multi-threaded programming.
I dug through the pthread docs but couldn't find any way to set a thread
to not inherent file descriptors. I know with the clone() call you can do
this, but a lot of pthread implementations are built over fork so..
Anyway, let me know what you think.
Ian
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