> I tried to set up a program which does the following:
>
> 1. A callback routine of a button forks a childprocess which does some
> data acquistion throuh serial ports
>
> 2. An IO Callback function, registered to the main form, should receive
> data from the child process and display it.
>
> Until now, i did not manage to get the pipe communication with the
> IO-Callback working (even with the use of some piping examples in the
> Linux Programmers Guide). This should be a very common problem.
Sorry, but I don't have anything handy at the moment that isn't
hellaciously complicated but I do have some questions that may help
you resolve the problem.
What happens? Does the program hang? Core dump? Can you make a
version of the program work *without* XForms?
Basically, the I/O callback is not much more than a wrapper around the
select() system call. If you can get a stripped down version of your
program to work with select() then the I/O callback should be a
breeze.
For an excellent discussion of how to handle interprocess
communication through pipes and other methods, you might want to look
at _UNIX Network Programming_ by W. Richard Stevens, published by
Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-949876-1. He also has an excellent book
_Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment_, published by
Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-56317-7. Finally, there's the Old Standby,
_The UNIX Programming Environment_ by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike
(Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-937681-X).
spl
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