Re: [Fwd: Re: where is error? (Glib::spawn_async)]

["Jonathon Jongsma" <jonathon jongsma gmail com>]

On 11/2/06, Michael J M Thomson <mjmt internode on net> wrote:
> > what makes you say that you don't need to pass the third parameter?
> > the function expects a reference to an array here so you must pass it
> > something.  Am I missing something?
> >
>
> No I probably wasn't clear, sorry. Just there are several overloads of
> Glib::spawn_async(), one of which doesn't expect that argument:
>
> Glib::spawn_async(const std::string& working_directory,
>                    const Glib::ArrayHandle<std::string>& argv,
>                    SpawnFlags flags = SpawnFlags(0),
>                    const sigc::slot<void>& child_setup = sigc::slot<void>(),
>                    Pid* child_pid = 0);
>
> Kind of makes sense IMHO, if you consider vector<string>() as equivalent to
> passing an empty array (char* env[1] = { NULL }) rather than NULL.

Ach.  Note to self: look for overloaded functions before declaring
something a bug.  Thanks for pointing that out.  Sorry for the
misinformation earlier.

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jonner