[openbeos] Re: popen() alternatives

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 17:47:47 +0200 CEST, Jonas Sundstrom said:

> And it needs to be thread-safe, so, IIRC, no fork()'ing.
> (there will be BLoopers around)

Then you have a problem. popen() uses fork() internally.
 
> So, what are the alternatives to popen() that allows
> reading and killing?
> 
> Is there a pkill()?

If you can determine the team id of the process you launched you can 
just kill the process by yourself.  Supposing you did call pclose() 
before killing the process (pclose() will block until the process 
terminates) there will be no problem I guess. Except for what I 
mentioned above.

-Bruno


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