Hi all:
If I use glib_child_add_watch() to detect when a glib_spawn_async() ended, do I have to call glib_spawn_close_pid() in the callback to fully finalize the glib_spawn_async()? Also, I presume that I don’t have to call inside the callback to glib_source_remove() with the value returned by glib_child_add_watch, but just want to be sure…
Thanks.
According to the documentation, yes you have to close the pid in the callback. About your second question: no idea sorry.
Correct, the GChildWatchSource removes itself. I checked to make sure: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/blob/master/glib/gmain.c#L5392
Mmmm… Then, that means that there is a bug here, in gnome shell, isn’t it? Because it launches a program with spawn_async() (at line 110), but the child_add_watch() callback is empty. Am I right?
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/blob/gnome-3-32/js/misc/util.js#L134
g_spawn_close_pid() doesn’t actually do anything on UNIX, but the documentation says to call it on all platforms anyway. (Maybe g_spawn will use something like pidfd one day instead of raw PIDs.)
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