Re: Newbie problems using g_spawn_async_with_pipes and watching for IO

[Phillip Susi <psusi ubuntu com>]

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On 02/19/2013 08:28 PM, Will Orr wrote:
> Here[1] is the problematic code.
>
> I'm trying to run a command and gather the output and return code.
> I do this by watching for the process to return, as well as waiting
> for the channels to HUP. However, my callbacks never get called
> with cond set to G_IO_HUP, even after the process terminates. Nor
> do any of the g_io_channel_read_* calls return errors. This seems
> inconsistent with the documentation, as well as examples that I've
> found in the hours of researching this problem.

Is the program you are running forking off a background process?  That
would signal that the parent process exited, while the children
continue to run in the background, keeping the pipes open.



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