> > For my application, I need to run gtk_main but I want to quit gtk_main > > when either input is available on stdin or the user presses Ctrl-C. ... > > Chris wrote: > You can write to a pipe in the signal handler (assuming you are using Unix as > your question implies), as write() is async-signal-safe - but set the pipe > non-blocking as in the unlikely event of it filling up and blocking on write > you will deadlock the program. You can watch on the pipe in the main loop > using GIOChannel.
Thanks! That works fine (I tried this on Linux and Mac OS X). Does it matter if I'd be using Windows instead? It's a bit hard to try because of some DLL incompatibilities, but that can be resolved. Or is there some fundamental reason why this wouldn't work on Windows? My previous solution checking for an interrupt periodically seems to work fine on Windows, though it is of course hard to tell with async signals. Thanks again, --Michiel. Michiel de Hoon Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Columbia University 1150 St Nicholas Avenue New York, NY 10032 _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list