Re: Using fork() in a GTK C/Vala application

[Gian Mario Tagliaretti <gianmt gnome org>]

On 2 September 2015 at 05:33, Jim Charlton <charltn gmail com> wrote:

Hi Jim,

> I have had similar problems and ended up using g_spawn_async_with_pipes()
> with a separate binary.  This works well for me as I often need to launch
> several instances of this "thread".

g_spawn_async_* have the (personally unwanted) behavior on windows to
open a console for each process [1], which is quite horrible for the
user.

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509201

Cheers
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Gian Mario Tagliaretti
GNOME Foundation member
gianmt gnome org