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

[Chris Vine <chris cvine freeserve co uk>]

On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 10:50:43 +0200
Gian Mario Tagliaretti <gianmt gnome org> wrote:
> 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

If you have glib >= 2.40, try GSubProcess.

Chris