[PD] writing to log files

cdr ix at replic.net
Tue Jan 31 06:07:25 CET 2006


> Wow, I didn't know about [popen]... how is it different from [shell]?

[shell] needs sys-V style ipc and fork(), popen() exists on almost all platforms

popen() on windows spawns a cmd.exe /c so theres no way around mega-overhead if you are then using bash ontop of that. my [popen] patches easily sped up 3 or 4 times by switching to linux..




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