Unix questions - Unix C Calling the system() function from multithreaded processes

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Unix C Calling the system() function from multithreaded processes

talisman

2004-11-23, 8:47 pm

hi,

one of my friends was saying it's not a good idea to do this.

certainly on my Solaris box man system makes a similar statement.

could anyone elaborate in practicality how risky this is?

i'm currently calling the system() function from within my 64 bit c
app..

i've had to do this because my program has to work with code for which
there are only 32bit libraries - hence my system() call to the
external 32 bit command.

is there a better way of doing this?