On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 01:50:20PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote:

> It'd be nice to move the spellchecker's interaction with the forked process 
> into Forkedcall. This will need an extension to Forkedcall so that we can 
> interact with a forked process, not just receive notification that it has 
> ended.

In fact I think I have a comment to that effect somewhere ...

> I suspect more and more of LyX will eventaully try and use Forkedcall. Eg, 
> why should View->DVI block execution?

This code may or may not prove useful :

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/oprofile/oprofile/libutil%2b%2b/child_reader.cpp?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

We've been using it sucessfully for some time

regards
john

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