Re: [gtk-list] Re: fork() with gtk ?

[Norbert Bladt <abladtn autelca ascom ch>]

James Bailie wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 10:25:13AM +0200, Norbert Bladt wrote:
> > Would using "popen" be a bad solution for this case ?
> > In this way you can show a progressbar during the "formatting"
> > but have to process the GUI events.
> >
> > What is the opinion of the members of this list ?
> 
> You must do:
> 
>    #include "gdk/gdkx.h"
>    close( ConnectionNumber( gdk_display ));
> 
> before popen(), as popen() does not close open descriptors.
Thanks for your answer.
However, it is much more difficult to cancel the operation on user's
demand once you've started something like popen("lpr -Pxxx").

Norbert.

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