Re: [Gaim-devel] Re: [Gaim-commits] CVS: gaim/src proxy.c,1.137,1.138 gtkprefs.c,1.292,1.293 util.h,1.82,1.83 util.c,1.368,1.369 gtkutils.c,1.121,1.122

[Sean E. <sea...@gm...>]

On 10/28/05, Peter Lawler <gai...@si...> wrote:
>  From my experience with g_spawn_command_line_sync in /exec plugin, it's
> evil. You're presuming that gconftool-2 will return nicely and in a
> timely manner.

Yes, I am. I've been assured by GNOME developers that gconftool-2 will
return immediately and will never print anything other than the value
to STDOUT. Obviouslly, Gaim has stricter requirements for
"immediately" than a shell script would, but if this actually turns
out being problematic, we can change it to use
g_spawn_async_with_pipes(), but that code will be so much uglier.

-s.

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