Re: A question on pending

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 08:37:42PM +0200, Andrej Prsa wrote:
> 
> I must issue a system call from my program, something like
> 
> 	system ("prog");
> 
> This operation takes at least a minute, but the time of computation
> actually depends on many parameters.
> 
> 1) How do I keep refreshing the GUI?

Use g_spawn_async* family of functions instead, and use pipes to
communicate with and track the child process if you need to.

Havoc