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docs: Mention that calls after fork() must be async-signal-safe

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Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>

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@ -34,9 +34,16 @@ GLib creates a worker thread for its own purposes so GLib applications
will always have at least 2 threads.
</para>
<para>
In particular, this means that programs must only use
<ulink url="man:signal-safety(7)">async-signal-safe functions</ulink> between
calling <function>fork()</function> and <function>exec()</function>, even if
they haven’t explicitly spawned another thread yet.
</para>
<para>
See the sections on <link linkend="glib-Threads">threads</link> and
<link linkend="glib-Thread-Pools">threadpools</link> for GLib APIs that
<link linkend="glib-Thread-Pools">thread pools</link> for GLib APIs that
support multithreaded applications.
</para>