On 5 Mar, Steve & Patti Getzinger wrote:
Here is what I have. I immediately fork to run one func that shows a splash and while that is running a second func (in child) to run a locate command and create an array of the returns. I then am killing the child process. I need the array from the child in the next function that executes in the parent. Is there a wiser way to build this array? The locate command stalls the main app if not forked (naturally). I need the array to build labels for radio buttons in the dialog that comes up after the splash. Any thoughts?
Use popen(3), and parse it's output by adding a watch on an io_channel that
you connect to the file decriptor that's part of the FILE* that popen
returns:
FILE *f;
GIOChannel *c;
gboolean func (GIOChannel *source, GIOCondition condition, gpointer data);
f = popen ("locate foo", "r");
c = g_io_channel_unix_new (fileno(f);
g_io_add_watch (c, G_IO_IN, &func, 0);
Roland
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