Re: Help on g_spwan_async

[Harring Figueiredo <harringf yahoo com>]

 Thanks to Bill Nolean and Torri for the reply --

 Torri, you were right on the money!! -- a copy and paste from shell_parse_argv
and the async call messed up the param the way you described.

 Bill, the backslash "\" was not causing problems becuase I was not
initializeng the char* the way I described  ( The pointer was set with
g_build_path.and not with char* str = "some\dir")


 Torri, I have changed the code to delete the dir myself (recursively). This
way, the darn console window does not popup (The only disadivantage is that it
will block your app for a while when deleting a lot of dir.-- this can be
easily bypassed if once uses thread to do the job -- I just avoinded using
threads out of lazyness :P)

  Let me know if you want my code to use in your app.

 Again, thanks for all the help and reply.



--- TORRI Vincent <Vincent Torri math u-bordeaux fr> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Harring Figueiredo wrote:
>
> >  
> > Folks,
> >
> >  I have the following code:
> >
> >     exe_string = g_strdup_printf("%s %s", rm_cmd, path);
> >     g_print("Executing command: %s\n", exe_string);
> >     if ( g_shell_parse_argv(exe_string ,&i, &exe_cmd , &error) != TRUE) {
> >         *err = g_strdup(error->message);
> >         g_error_free(error);
> >         return FALSE;
> >     }
> >     ret_val = g_spawn_async_with_pipes(NULL, exe_cmd ,NULL,
> >             G_SPAWN_LEAVE_DESCRIPTORS_OPEN | G_SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH,
> >             NULL, NULL, &pid, NULL, NULL, NULL, &error);
>
> I have the "same" problem yesterday : the DOS console appears, disappears 
> and nothing appends (a test with treeview). I search the line and it was a 
> problem of wrong type in a function. Perhaps you have to use &exe_cmd in 
> g_spawn_async_with_pipes (2nd parameter) as it requests a gchar **.
>
> regards
>
> Vincent TORRI
>
> >   rm_cmd = "deltree /Y" and path= "I:\somepath\somedir"
> >
> >  When I run the command on windowze, I can see the DOS console windows
> poping
> > up and desapearing; however, the directory never gets deleted.
> >
> >   IF I do an exact copy andpaty of the command that I output with g_print
> > above, the directory gets deleted.
> >
> >   What am I doing wrong here ? 
> >
> >
> > NOTE: I am using this code because I need to delete anentire directory
> > structure on Windows and the remove() calls is only working for files -- I
> > guess it has a bug reported on the remove(3) man pages.
> > If anyone has a better suggestion that the code above, please drop me a
> line.
> > Note 2: compiled with mingwin gcc 2.95.3 (Windows binary from Tor's site.)
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Harring.
> >
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