Re: Q: wait for child, process its return value

[Sascha Ziemann <szi aibon ping de>]

Nils Philippsen <nils@wombat.dialup.fht-esslingen.de> writes:

| wait on the child process, while processing gtk+ events (here wait() will
| not suffice) but after the child's death I need it's return value (and I
| don't want to know, when a child is SIGSTOPped), so signal(SIGCHLD, ...)
| won't suffice, too.
| 
| Has anybody a suggestion how to continue processing gtk+-events and having
| the subsequently called program's return value?

Use gtk_input_add:

  timer_fp = popen("govie-timer-50", "r");
  gdk_input_add (fileno(timer_fp), GDK_INPUT_READ, update_frame, preview);

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