Re: Io error in X

[The Miscreant <miscreant@erols.com>]

Kyle Burton wrote:
> 
> Where's your souce?  Can I have a peek at it?  Have you tried return() from
> the child's main?
> 
> I'm not sure why you're getting the error, I've never programmed in gtk
> before, but I've used fork(), sigset() and wait().
> 
> help us help you :)
> 
> kylE
> 
>

Kyle,
	I promise I'll put up the source code on a convenient FTP site very
soon. I am in the middle of converting XWave (sound file
recorder/player/editor) to run with a GTK front end. It's a bit of a
chaotic mess at the moment :-) I was just hoping somebody might have
encountered this problem before.


Gabriel.


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> On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, The Miscreant wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >       I was wondering if anyone with some X windows/GTK knowledge could help
> > me out. I am writing an application using GTK which forks a new process
> > to read/write to a file in the background. This works fine, however,
> > when I try to terminate the new process using exit(0) I get an X IO
> > error. This happens even if I set up a signal handler for SIGCHLD. If I
> > terminate the background process using abort() I don't get this error,
> > but it does have the unfortunate side effect of dumping core ! Is there
> > any way of getting around these problems and getting the child process
> > to terminate cleanly ?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Gabriel Finch.
> >
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