Re: g_spawning three processes: one after another only when...

[Olivier Sessink <lists olivier pk wau nl>]

Colossus wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to launch these three processes:
> 1) bzip2 -dc archive.tar.bz2 > /tmp/foo.tar
> 2) tar --delete -vf /tmp/foo.tar file_to_del
> 3) bzip2 -c /tmp/foo.tar > archive.tar,bz2
>
> only when each of them exits. Shall I use g_spawn_sync ?
> How to code the run of all of them ?
> The GUI must not freeze while these three processes are
> operating on the file.
>
> Any clue please ?

you could also spawn '/bin/sh cat archive.tar.bz2 |bzip2 -d | tar
--delete -v file_to_del | bzip2 > archive.tar,bz2'

regards,
        Olivier