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From: "Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>
Subject: Re: GtkAda on WinXP
Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 17:26:26 GMT
Date: 2005-05-06T17:26:26+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6NNee.136614$dP1.481701@newsc.telia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d5bt0c$8rj$1@news.ya.com>

Bart wrote:
> And maybe this may be kind of weird but, is it possible to do something like
> C�s fork(); in ADA? I�ve thought that Gtk.Main could be ran from a "child
> process"...

Not in XP. Fork is a Unix system call. Windows has a different way of 
starting new processes. (I've heard it doesn't have the concept of 
parent and child processes either.)

What you want is probably threads rather than separate processes, in 
which case you should use Ada tasks, as Steve said.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-06 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-05  1:33 GtkAda on WinXP Bart
2005-05-05  2:05 ` Steve
2005-05-05  7:29 ` Pascal Obry
2005-05-05 12:19 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2005-05-06 17:26 ` Björn Persson [this message]
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