[ruby-gnome2-devel-en] Forking from inside a GTK loop

[Carlo E. P. <fl...@fl...>]

>From within a GTK loop, I need to fork independent processes, that the
main process must forget about. 

If after fork() I call exec(), thus eventually calling a new instance
of the Ruby interpreter, all goes OK.

If, instead, I call a Ruby method, I can then leave the main loop and
get back to the system prompt, but the GTK window will not disappear
until the daemon completes.

Look at the attached test program. If I run it, and then click on the
provided button, the sub-process that sleeps for a long time will be
started and appropriately daemonized, and I will be back to the shell
prompt, but the small window will not disappear from my screen until
either the process terminates or I kill it. It is not repainted
anymore (remains all grey), but it remains there nevertheless.

Am I overlooking something?

I use Linux (current kernel), the latest Ruby from SVN and the latest
Ruby-gnome2 from git.

Carlo

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