Re: fork ???

["Daniel M. German" <dmg csg uwaterloo ca>]

 Havoc> Just use fork(), it's cheap on Linux, certainly cheap enough for most
 Havoc> uses.

 Havoc> One example of using it is the gnome_execute_async() function in
 Havoc> libgnome, you could look at that code.

 Havoc> Also a UNIX programming book will have examples; try Linux Application
 Havoc> Development, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, or
 Havoc> Beginning Linux Programming, those three are all worth owning.

You can also check the source code of ggv. It uses fork, then execvp
to run ghostscript. (check gtkgs.c)



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