Re: progress, statusbar, update

["A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis gmx de>]

* muppet <scott asofyet org> [2006-01-18 23:05]:
> Even better still would be forking a child to create the PDFs in
> the background, uninterrupted and free of bizarre progress
> update code, and monitor the life of that child by waiting for
> it to hang up on its stdout.

Or have the child produce some output in regular intervals so the
foreground app can twiddle a progress indicator in response.

Regards,
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Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>