Hi, On Monday 12 January 2004 20:56, Oliver Rauch wrote: [SNIPSNAP] > > So I think you can't close the pipe in threads. > > > > Bye, > > Henning > > I tried what happens when the pipe is closed when threads are used. > It is better to keep the pipe opened :)
indeed it is better ;-) You should always keep in mind, that when using threads you still live in the same process-space - per definition. This means, that nothing will be inheritet like in the fork case. In your reader thread you have the same pipe-descriptors, like in the main programm context. If you close it in the thread, then it's closed for the whole process. That's why I introduced the sanei_thread_is_forked() function. That's also, why the MacOSX guys want to use threads instead of fork, because of the buggy fork implementation, the descriptors are not inheritet to the child process... Good luck... Gerhard
