Hello Rusty Thanks for your reply :-) but I have a question
So in the case the child is doing computation while the father show progress information and allow the user to stop the computation. I'm modifying the memory of Gtk --> updating the value of progress bar and some labels and status bar. Then is the memory duplicated? If yes, how can I remove it fom the child, else (if no) then it is OK :-) Thanks, Best regards, --- Jean-Christophe Berthon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rusty Conover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jean-Christophe Berthon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 10:39 AM Subject: Re: A problem about programming with gtk+ in multiprocess. Hi Jean-Christophe, Freeing memory in the child process is not normally necessary since most kernels (including Linux) employ the "copy on write" policy for the child process address spaces. This means that the memory actually isn't copied from parent to child unless either process makes changes to the memory, otherwise the child just reads directly from the parent process. Hope that helps, Rusty _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
