>Then when the child dies and I catch the SIGCHLD, I do the following: you'd better not be doing anything in the SIGCHLD handler. this has long been a PITA of most X Window toolkits - its OK that POSIX says you can't do anything really significant from a signal handler, but its not OK that its so hard to find a way to handle whatever it was that you did want to do. general solution typically involves an in-process FIFO hooked into the g_main_event loop. from the signal handler, write to one end of the FIFO; the handler within the event loop will do the rest. its not pleasant. at one time, there was talk of GTK adding XForms-like methods for handling POSIX signals within the main event loop, but i don't think it ever happened. --p _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
