popen/pclose problem in Linux 2.2.x with vfork/glibc 2.1

Andreas Schwab schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
Thu Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 1999


Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de> writes:

|> Thanks for all replies.  I do think we have to use fork instead of
|> vfork for popen in glibc since the code changes some globals and calls
|> dup2 and close:

I agree about the globals, but what's wrong with dup2 and close?  Only the
memory is shared, not the files.

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Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de                      completely different"
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