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Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 07:18:30 -0500
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
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Subject: Re: popen() fails while system() works
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On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:56:58AM +0100, Rainer Hochreiter wrote:
> but what's the real reason why popen() results in the address conflict
> and system() does not?!

AFAICT, popen() calls fork() and system() does not.

Jason

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