On Tuesday 26 June 2007 16:15:32 Richard Heck wrote: > > > > May I file an enhancement at bugzilla? (I didn't find any dealing with > > this) > > Of course.
This subject has been discussed here before I would be surprised if this is not on bugzilla, or at at least in the wiki. > This is not difficult to do, in a way, and it should perhaps be > configurable via a preference. The "threads" are provided by the OS: On > Linux, it just means running the system command with "&". The downside > is that, as the code is currently configured, you don't get the error > messages, since the command is launched and then we go on to whatever > else we are doing: There's no "it's done" signal.... Linux has support for threads, light weight processes, what you are describing is a fork and different in this regard. > You might even be able to hack your way to this by defining the > converter using "&". It'd be worth trying. AFAIR one proposed solution implied the use of boost support for threads. This would hide the platform specific details. > Richard -- José Abílio
