Re: Implementing "cpio -tv < file.cpio" with glib routines

[Olivier Sessink <lists olivier pk wau nl>]

Colossus wrote:
> --------- Messaggio originale -------- Da: Olivier Sessink
> <lists olivier pk wau nl>
>
> > 1) spawn 'cpio -tv' with a pipe in and a pipe out 2) create
> > non-blocking g_io_channels from these pipes 3) register callbacks
> > with g_io_add_watch() for the io channels, one of these functions
> > should write, the other one read
>
>
> Thank you, but about the cat command ? cpio -tv alone doesn't work
> because it needs the input from a piped command.

if you have the data in memory:
use g_spawn to pipe the data to cpio

regards,
        Olivier