Re: gtk3 and fork/exec of non-gtk child

[rbd <rbd soest hawaii edu>]

Thanks much for the suggestions and code pointer, Eric!

I get the drift that GSubProcess is a more recent package layered over 
g_spawn. It consequently seems to have more features but less 3rd-party 
documentation outside the reference manual.

Roger

On Sat, 14 Jan 2017, cecashon aol com wrote:

> Hi Roger,
>
> A little while back I was testing something similar with
> g_spawn_async_with_pipes(). It is neither mission-critical or meticulous but
> something I was just testing for the possible use with gnuplot. There is a
> driver.c and a worker.c program. The driver spawns the worker and sets up
> some communication. You just need to set the location path of the worker in
> driver.c. Sort of simple but I had some trouble figuring out how some of
> this worked so... it might be helpful.
>
> https://github.com/cecashon/OrderedSetVelociRaptor/tree/master/Misc/Pipes
>
> I haven't used GSubprocess and don't know of a short starter there.
>
> Eric