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Add Win32 warnings regarding the child setup function.

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2005-03-29  Tor Lillqvist  <tml@novell.com>

	* glib/tmpl/spawn.sgml: Add Win32 warnings regarding the child
	setup function.
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2005-03-29 Tor Lillqvist <tml@novell.com>
* glib/tmpl/spawn.sgml: Add Win32 warnings regarding the child
setup function.
2005-03-21 Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
* glib/glib-sections.txt:

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<!-- ##### USER_FUNCTION GSpawnChildSetupFunc ##### -->
<para>
Specifies the type of the setup function passed to g_spawn_async(),
g_spawn_sync() and g_spawn_async_with_pipes(). It is called in the
child after GLib has performed all the setup it plans to perform
but before calling <function>exec()</function>. Obviously, actions
taken in this function will only affect the child, not the parent.
g_spawn_sync() and g_spawn_async_with_pipes(). On POSIX platforms it
is called in the child after GLib has performed all the setup it plans
to perform but before calling <function>exec()</function>. On POSIX
actions taken in this function will thus only affect the child, not
the parent.
</para>
<para>
On Windows the function is called in the parent. Its usefulness on
Windows is thus questionable. In many cases executing the child setup
function in the parent can have ill effects, and you should be very
careful when porting software to Windows that uses child setup
functions.
</para>
@user_data: user data to pass to the function.