On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 06:28:56PM +0100, Christian Stimming wrote: > >>> Also, in the command prompt window is the following: > >>> > >>> gnucash: [E] "Failed to fork child process." > >> This is probably because gnucash tries to save the file in compressed > >> form, > >> which requires a separate gzip process that won't work on windows. In > >> short, > >> in the preferences please uncheck the checkbox under General -> File -> > >> Compress file. Does saving work, then? > > > > I wonder if we should just disable this feature on win32? > > The feature is already disabled on windows, see io-gncxml-v2.c:1243. I > tried to find the place that's causing this "failed to fork" message, > but apparently it doesn't come from within gnucash. At least we don't > have that string anywhere, and the only fork() that gnucash uses is in > io-gncxml-v2.c which is unused on windows. So I have no idea where this > comes from, and I'd simply ignore it for now.
That's process.scm which is run during price-quote retrieval. Perhaps guile's (primitive-fork) doesn't work on win32. -chris _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
