Gtk::input_add() for a popen() filehandle?

G'day, I'm trying to write an application using PHP-GTK that will run rsync over ssh in a pipe, so that I can update the GUI according to the progress (or failure) of the rsync. If I were using C, then I would use popen(), obtain the file descriptor for the pipe, and then hand it to gtk_input_add_full() so that I can return control to the GTK+ event loop, and be informed when input arrives. I've done this successfully in C before. However, the PHP-GTK function Gtk::input_add() only accepts an fopen() filehandle. The check is in ext/gtk+/gtk.overrides:288 (rev 1.48) and changing it to allow popen() filehandles doesn't seem to work. The callback is not called. I presume the filehandle types are different. Can anyone suggest how to fix this? -- James Cameron mailto:quozl@us.netrek.org http://quozl.netrek.org/