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| author | Tor Lillqvist <tml@novell.com> | 2008-08-07 15:40:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Tor Lillqvist <tml@src.gnome.org> | 2008-08-07 15:40:03 +0000 |
| commit | c13b9d5d6396e0f058411318c82dcea76fa87fd5 (patch) | |
| tree | 13ac3c77cfc786aa7eb84c4a77171a993368cfec /configure.in | |
| parent | 4bd7cc6ad77597d47db3107ce878458e086ad396 (diff) | |
| download | glib-c13b9d5d6396e0f058411318c82dcea76fa87fd5.tar.gz | |
Output comment clarifying GPid semantics to glibconfig.h.
2008-08-07 Tor Lillqvist <tml@novell.com>
* configure.in: Output comment clarifying GPid semantics to
glibconfig.h.
* glibconfig.h.win32.in: Ditto here.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=7317
Diffstat (limited to 'configure.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | configure.in | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in index 8aa7d6e5f..0c80f2f6b 100644 --- a/configure.in +++ b/configure.in @@ -2951,6 +2951,12 @@ _______EOF #define G_MODULE_SUFFIX "$g_module_suffix" +/* A GPid is an abstraction for a process "handle". It is *not* a + * process identifier, the type that getpid() returns. GPid is used in + * GLib only in gspawn.h and gmain.h. On POSIX there are no "handles" + * as such, but on Windows a GPid is a handle to a process, a kind of + * pointer, not a process identifier. + */ typedef $g_pid_type GPid; G_END_DECLS |