Re: Is there a way to make this work?

[Thijs Assies <thijs_a gmx net>]

Tristan Van Berkom wrote:

> Hmm the age old problem ;)
>
>         I would add a thread to do the heavy stuff
> and an IO channel for the child thread to comunicate
> with the main GUI thread and update the clist with 
> the data read in the g_io_channel_add_watch callback.
>
>         But you could do a number of things. just remember
> that only one thread is allowed to update the GUI.
>
>         -Tristan
>
> Thijs Assies wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi, i've created a program, wich gets an XML file and stores the stuff
> > into a clist. But when it gets the XML, and parses it. The program
> > freezes. I can solve this using fork. But i cant update the clist within
> > a fork!
> >
> > Is there a way to keep the program running while getting ad parsing the XML?
> >
> > thx.
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well: when i fork the get and parse code it works. But it starts adding 
to the clist when the pasing isn't complete yet! how can you allow a 
child to write to the gtk widget? Or do you have an example of what you 
mean?
i created a thread wich get, parses the xml and updates the clist. But 
it chrases, resulting in a zombie.

this is the code i used:
int timeout_handler(gpointer data)
{
 void **child_stack;
 child_stack = (void **)g_malloc(16500);
 clone(timeout_handler2, child_stack, CLONE_VM, NULL);
 return 1;
}

timeouthandler2 take care of the stuff i want. but the moment it 
started, ps aux showes me a zombie. gdb cant debug it! how can i fix this?