popen() in multithreaded program - hangs?

[Daniel Eischen]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008, xorquewasp at googlemail.com wrote:

> On 20080926 21:43:48, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>> On Sat, 27 Sep 2008, xorquewasp at googlemail.com wrote:
>>
>>> On 20080926 16:43:37, Julian Elischer wrote:
>>>> xorquewasp at googlemail.com wrote:
>>>>> I'm trying to write a client for the jack audio connection kit
>>>>> (http://jackaudio.org), have hit an apparent bug and am not sure
>>>>
>>>> what revision of FreeBSD?
>>>
>>> Ahem, should've mentioned that.
>>>
>>> FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p1 #0: Wed Feb 13 02:40:56 UTC 2008
>>>  root at i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>>
>>   http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.3R/errata.html
>>   http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-08:01.libpthread.asc
>
> I wonder if I'm missing something:
>
> $ sudo freebsd-update fetch
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 6.3-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Inspecting system... done.
> Preparing to download files... done.
>
> No updates needed to update system to 6.3-RELEASE-p4.
>
> I appear to have that update but the problem persists.

It's not security related, so I don't know whether it would be in a
binary update.  You should follow the procedure listed in the links
above.

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DE