Re: g_spawn_async_with_pipes on windows

[Olivier Sessink <oliviersessink gmail com>]

2010/2/10 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?)

true. firefox was just the most simple example that we tried to get
working. We integrate a lot more utilities, and those often need
pipes. We better get the simple one working first before we try
further.

> If not, instead of g_spawn_*, Âjust 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.

is there any reason to believe that the glib functions are not working
correctly?

Olivier