Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Maybe. But we already have a mechanism for non-blocking forking of processes | which will tell us when the process has finished. So we could | for (;;) { | fork latex run and subsequently | receive notification of its finish | parse the log file and, if finished, break; | }
| If we used pipes to communicate between the two processes, we could also get | the feedback that you desire during the run itself. The entire mechanism | exists already elsewhere within LyX. and that would be a bit easier if threads were used. Even for the current async stuff. -- Lgb