> [Using a pipe] is generally the best way of dealing > with asynchronous (Unix) signals, but for simple > cases another approach is just to set a flag of type > volatile sig_atomic_t in the Unix signal handler, > and then check and act on the status of the flag in > the glib event loop with an idle handler set up with > g_idle_add().
The downside of that approach is that you have to busy-wait on that flag, while the pipe approach allows the application to be completely idle (and still have fast response to the signal)... I went with the pipe approach; using the sample code referred to by another poster, it turned out to be pretty easy. Thanks to everybody for your help! - Thomas __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
