Re: popen2 popen call

[Ulrich Drepper]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:39, <heitkamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> OK. ÂI read in one of the messages, that glibc, passes the popen call to a ABI in the kernel. I have not
> looked at the code in glibc yet.

popen uses pipe2.  There is fallback code to use pipe if necessary.
It's compiled out only of the libc assumes the kernel support is
available.
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