Re: vte

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw iprimus com au>]

Johan Persson wrote:
> Ok, so this might not be a gtk question, but this seemed like a nice place to ask.
>
> I'm embedding a vte terminal in my program and I want to be able to cancel the process run by vte. I have looked at the vte_terminal_fork_command which gives me the pid of the process, which I can use to kill the process later. However I would like to avoid keeping track of processes and just run them in a bunch with vte_terminal_feed_child. 
>
> Therefor I was wondering if it is possible to simulate a ctrl-c on the vte widget or another way to just make 
> the vte terminal cancel the current job without keeping track of pids. I've looked through the vte 
> documentation and searched google but didn't find any similar solution or ideas.

The parent process can set up an anonymous pipe (before forking) to send terminate
commands to its children.