glib r7319 - trunk

[tml svn gnome org]

Author: tml
Date: Fri Aug  8 04:55:41 2008
New Revision: 7319
URL: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/glib?rev=7319&view=rev

Log:
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Modified:
   trunk/configure.in
   trunk/glibconfig.h.win32.in

Modified: trunk/configure.in
==============================================================================
--- trunk/configure.in	(original)
+++ trunk/configure.in	Fri Aug  8 04:55:41 2008
@@ -2951,11 +2951,12 @@
 
 #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.
+/* A GPid is an abstraction for a process "handle". It is *not* an abstraction for
+ * a process identifier in general. GPid is used in GLib only for
+ * descendant processes spawned with the g_spawn* functions. On POSIX
+ * there is no "process handle" concept 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;
 

Modified: trunk/glibconfig.h.win32.in
==============================================================================
--- trunk/glibconfig.h.win32.in	(original)
+++ trunk/glibconfig.h.win32.in	Fri Aug  8 04:55:41 2008
@@ -241,11 +241,12 @@
 
 #define G_MODULE_SUFFIX "dll"
 
-/* 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.
+/* A GPid is an abstraction for a process "handle". It is *not* an abstraction for
+ * a process identifier in general. GPid is used in GLib only for
+ * descendant processes spawned with the g_spawn* functions. On POSIX
+ * there is no "process handle" concept as such, but on Windows a GPid
+ * is a handle to a process, a kind of pointer, not a process
+ * identifier.
  */
 typedef void * GPid;