[vlc-devel] Re: (SPAM 2)Re: Problem with exec(), system() popen() of VLC

[Michael Pujos]

Michael Pujos wrote:

> Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
>
>> You CANNOT pipe into a daemonized process.
>>
>>  
>>
>>> Any idea to make this work would be greatly appreciated. I already
>>> tried a lot of things like -d or adding a '&' without success and
>>> everything I could think of using exec / popen.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Don't use the daemon option. Simply fork() before you call system().
>>
>>  
>>
> Thanks, that works. It was so obvious I didn't even think of it !
>

Spoke a bit too soon: it works perfectly in a non-threaded application 
but inside a pthread you never reach the code of the
parent (which is very strange, but forks in threads are described as a 
bit touchy)!

So with the following code in a pthread you never ever display "exit". 
system() (or exec() ) do some bad things :(

if(fork() == 0)
    {
   
        String_t cmd = tb_String("dvbstream -f %s -rtp -o 8192 | vlc - 
-I dummy  --program %s --sout '#standard{access=http,mux=ts,dst=:3001}'",
                                                             
tb_toStr(frequency),
                                                            tb_toStr(pid));
   
        system(tb_toStr(cmd));
    }
   
    tb_warn("exit");




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