Re: Fork with gtk+-2.0

[Roland Smith <rsmith xs4all nl>]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:04:15 +0300
"Alphex K." <alphex@crew.org.ru> wrote:

> pid_t pid;
> pid = fork();
> 
> if ((pid=fork())==0)
> 	execlp("/bin/xvkbd", "-geometry 800x185-0-0", NULL);
> else
> 	g_print("Fork failed\n");
> }

You've left out a lot of details. You need to register a singal handler for
SIGCHLD. If you want to communitate with the child process, you have to setup
pipes etc.

It's better to use one of g_spawn_async or g_spawn_async_with_pipes or
g_spawn_command_line_async. They take care of a lot of the details for you.

Roland
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