Re: multiple process calls from GTK

[Harring Figueiredo <harringf yahoo com>]

--- "John J. Boyer" <director chpi org> wrote:
> Harring,
>
> Is Steven's book or something like it available online? I am deaf-blind, 
> so this is an important question for me. If not, how can the printed 
> book 
> be obtained? Perhaps I can arrange to have it converted to e-text or 
> html. 

  I believe that the sourcec code can be downloaded from the web, but the book
itself is not online. Pehaps you should contact the editor for electronic
versions.

> on a more trivial note, what is the algorithm you used to arrive at the 
> figure of 932 e-mails?

   That's the age of my son, the month he was born and the number of months for
his birthday -- in no particular order -- it is also my lucky number :P)
> John
>  
> On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Harring Figueiredo wrote:
>
> >  I guess what you need is a good 5 days read on Steven's book (Advanced
> > programming on Unix Environment) or something like that.
> >
> >   * Fork/exec
> >   * File descriptor inheritance
> >   * Signals
> >   * Child process handling.
> >
> >
> >   It would take roughly 932 emails to help you with this.
> >
> >   Get the book and good luck.
> >
> > Harring.
> > --- 447158 celes unizar es wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >   I am developing an application in GTK+1.2 and my problem is that I want
> to
> > > execute two processes that communicate between them and then return their
> > > output.
> > >
> > >   First, I've got the problem of calling both processes at the same time,
> as
> > > I
> > > don't know how to do it (I know I can use the system() system call to
> execute
> > > something in a shell, but I don't know if it works for 2 programs...).
> > >
> > >   Another problem I have is that it would be great to process the
> information
> > > of
> > > the processes as it is generated (via standard output or another
> descriptor),
> > > but I don't know how to do it at the same time that these processes are
> > > executed.
> > >
> > >   I also would like to be able to stop them whenever a user could think
> it
> > > necessary, so my GTK application should be active while these processes
> are
> > > executing...
> > >
> > >   You see, concurrency and more concurrency... any help is wellcome!
> > >
> > >   Many many thanks in advance,
> > >
> > >     Germán Latorre.
> > >
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