Re: GIOChannel and pipes.

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

Claudio Saavedra V. wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I'm trying to write an GTK/GNOME application that uses pipes, and i want to use
> GIOChannel for it, but i have no other documentation than the API, and i can't
> find examples or codes in the net about it.

What else can really be said about io channels than what is in
the API reference ? The description section is quite elaborite.

I usualy use them for any IO I have to wake up on (i.e. sockets,
device file desctiptors, named pipes or simple full duplex pipes
used between parent/child processes).

Just aquire your file descriptor, create a channel from that, use
g_io_add_watch() (which returns a `source ID' that can be removed
later on with g_source_remove) and voila ! you've integrated
a callback for IO on that file descriptor into the main loop, magic.

Cheers,
                                    -Tristan