Spawn external programs asynchronously

Drawback is that we can't check the exitcode anymore.
But we were unsure why/when we need this, see:
https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/pull/1760/files#r980868708

Fixes https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity/issues/1759
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Marouane L
2022-09-26 12:29:14 +01:00
committed by Michael Vetter
parent 7ffe55e980
commit 2d11a35ee1
6 changed files with 15 additions and 34 deletions

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@@ -9424,7 +9424,7 @@ _url_external_method(const char* cmd_template, const char* url, const char* file
{
gchar** argv = format_call_external_argv(cmd_template, url, filename);
if (!call_external(argv, NULL, NULL)) {
if (!call_external(argv)) {
cons_show_error("Unable to call external executable for url: check the logs for more information.");
} else {
cons_show("URL '%s' has been called with '%s'.", url, cmd_template);