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authorTor Lillqvist <tml@src.gnome.org>2008-08-08 04:55:41 +0000
committerTor Lillqvist <tml@src.gnome.org>2008-08-08 04:55:41 +0000
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diff --git a/glibconfig.h.win32.in b/glibconfig.h.win32.in
index 2b1a9cec1..a5ae00f73 100644
--- a/glibconfig.h.win32.in
+++ b/glibconfig.h.win32.in
@@ -241,11 +241,12 @@ union _GSystemThread
#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;