Re: g_spawn_async_with_pipes on windows

[Tor Lillqvist <tml iki fi>]

> g_spawn_async_with_pipes() to launch an other executable (firefox in this case).

Do you expect to provide input to Firefox's stdin, or get output from
its stdout, through the pipes then? (That would be a bit strange for a
GUI app like a web browser, wouldn't it?)

If not, instead of g_spawn_*,  just use one of the "normal" _spawn*()
family of functions in the Microsoft C library (declared in
<process.h>) with P_NOWAIT as the first parameter if you don't want to
wait for it to finish. Much simpler, and less chance that some bug or
misfeature in GLib is confusing you.

Sure, you will then have to use #ifdefs, but is that a big deal,
presumably it is in a single location in your app where you launch
Firefox.

--tml