Re: Spawn a process without exec

[David Rosal <davidrr menta net>]

John Cuppit wrote:
> sounds like you want to start a child thread:
>
>   http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-Threads.html

Uhrgh! I dreaded something like that. It's (always) time to learn...

> there are some 'gotchas' if you have several threads all calling the
> same GTK. It's usually best (IMO) to have all of the GTK calls in one
> thread and to use something like an asyncqueue for workers to tell the
> GUI thread what to do.

At the moment I know almost nothing about glib threads, but after
taking a first look at the API reference I couldn't find any way to
"kill" a thread from the main thread, which is what I want to do.
There's g_thread_exit(), but it exits the current thread, and
g_thread_join() waits for the thread to exit by itself...


David

> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 22:32:15 +0000, David Rosal <davidrr menta net> wrote:
>  > Please, could anybody tell me how to create a non-exec process within a
>  > GTK application?
>  > I can't use fork() because the child has to use GTK, and the g_spawn...
>  > stuff is only used to spawn processes that run a different program with
>  > exec.