[Gambas-user] shell and exec with wait

[Benoit Minisini]

On Thursday 17 March 2005 16:35, Rob wrote:
> On Thursday 17 March 2005 04:54, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> > In Qt, the signal handler that is raised when a process is
> > terminated (SIGCHLD) writes to a socket, so that an event can be
> > generated in the event loop.
> >
> > I think I can use the same trick. I must see... But the right way
> > is having the pselect() system call in Linux :-)
>
> I really think that SHELL ... WAIT FOR READ *should* throw an error!
> I could see adding a Shell() or Exec() function that runs a program,
> waits for it to finish, and returns its output immediately (like my
> Backtick function, but without the awfulness) but what's the point in
> having an event-based interface for a totally synchronous operation,
> especially with these hoops you need to jump through to do it?
>
> Rob
>

Let's go for raising an error!

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Benoit Minisini
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