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[Dick Hollenbeck <dick@...>]

Raúl Sánchez Siles wrote:
> El Jueves, 24 de Abril de 2008, Raúl Sánchez Siles escribió:
>
> > Hello Dick and thanks for you much clarifying anwer:
> >
> > I'm thinking of a solution which would involve using a wxProcess variable
> > to redirect pipes into it or something like that. I'm doing some tests and
> > preparing a patch for this, so I get this working you'll have news about
> > it.
> >
> > If I'm right I think this isn't a problem only covering debug builds, but
> > also general builds as long as the child process output enough information,
> > so it's something where care should be taken.
> >
> > Thanks for the help, regards,
>
> Find attached a first try. Tested and works. I don't know yet the possible 
> drawbacks of this.
>
> What do you think about it? 

It does not fix the so called problem. So you go back to the drawing 
board, if it still bothers you.

I just tried it and PCBNEW hung up when run from kicad.


I frankly think its a waste of time, but just to provide a better 
playground for you, I am submitting a patch which consolidates the 
solution into one place in common.cpp


Dick