On 2010/05/06 21:51, frederico schardong <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to add the popen in a thread (using g_thread_create()) but
> it keep frozen my application. So, is popen thread safe? there is
> another simple alternative if it isn't?

popen() is not thread safe, unless you use the GNU specific option "e"
for enabling close-on-exec.  But that causes just fd leaks, and is
probably unrelated to a possible freeze (unless the sub process drains
the fd).

Max
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