Re: is thaere a way to exit(1)?

[Gary Kline <kline thought org>]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 04:34:32PM +0100, Stefan Sauer wrote:
> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:34:32 +0100
> From: Stefan Sauer <ensonic hora-obscura de>
> Subject: Re: is thaere a way to exit(1)?
> To: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
>
> On 01/15/2012 12:51 AM, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 10:09:43PM +0100, David Ne??as wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:59:45AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
> > > > I finally know =where= i want to exit my gtk program, but exit 
> > > > just doesn't break me out of my while() loop.  what's the magin?
> > > exit() *does* terminate the program no matter what loop or whatever it
> > > might be running.
> > >
> > > So, most likely, you think your code calls exit() at some point but that
> > > actually never happens.
> > >
> > > The program might get stuck in the finalisation phase if some exit
> > > handler (e.g. atexit()-registered) or finaliser gets stuck but I suppose
> > > if you were registering such things you (a) would have told us (b) did
> > > not wonder what happened.
> > >
> > > Yeti
> > >
> > >
> > > P.S.: Calling exit() while within the Gtk+ main loop is a bit harsh.
> > > Normally one calls gtk_main_quit() and the program continues execution
> > > after gtk_main() ??? which typically means it then reaches the end of
> > > main() and terminates.
> >
> >     you were abs correct about exit().  i moved it around and
> >     was able to verify that my code was doing what i had
> >     thought.  that puts me back to the problem of my gtk
> >     application going dark/dim;
> This usually indicates that an application is busy. Run the app inside
> gdb, break into gdb when it is gray and check the backtrace.
>
> Stefan


        well, it =is= busy.  it's looping endlessly; but then i
        limited it to 5 loops with a for-loop.  same.  (i thought my
        programming skills were better that having to use the
        debugger, but may have to.)  before, i am going to scp
        everything over to my eee-900a that runs debian.  see if it
        runs there.  i hope i don't see smoke rising from the
        netbook :-)

        gary

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