From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2b786abb8057cec1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.2 (X11/20050324) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GtkAda on WinXP References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <6NNee.136614$dP1.481701@newsc.telia.net> Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 17:26:26 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1115400386 217.209.116.179 (Fri, 06 May 2005 19:26:26 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 19:26:26 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10944 Date: 2005-05-06T17:26:26+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu