Libxfce4ui spawn api break

Brian J. Tarricone brian at tarricone.org
Sun Nov 1 00:41:33 CET 2009


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On 10/31/2009 04:21 PM, Nick Schermer wrote:
> 2009/10/31 Jannis Pohlmann <jannis at xfce.org>:
>> If we can agree on that, go ahead. I personally think
>> xfce_spawn_on_screen() should be at least as powerful as
>> gdk_spawn_on_screen(). And if it misses the PID, then we should add it
>> as long as we can.
> 
> In that case we should also add (GSpawnChildSetupFunc child_setup,
> gpointer user_data), does anybody think we needs this?

Nah, from what I'm told the child setup function is generally a bad
idea.  I can't think of any use cases offhand, aside from calling
setsid(), which is rarely necessary (and should be done by default
anyway, unless G_SPAWN_DO_NOT_REAP_CHILD is passed).

	-b
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