On 07/09/2020 11:27 am, Dave Martin wrote:
On Thu, Sep 03, 2020 at 11:20:25AM +0100, Boyan Karatotev wrote:
On 02/09/2020 18:00, Dave Martin wrote:
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 02:16:05PM +0100, Boyan Karatotev wrote:
+int exec_sign_all(struct signatures *signed_vals, size_t val) +{
Could popen(3) be used here?
Fork-and-exec is notoriously fiddly, so it's preferable to use a library function to do it where applicable.I would love to, but the worker needs a bidirectional channel and popen
only gives a unidirectional stream.
Ah, fair point.
Would it help if you created an additional pipe before calling popen()?
May not be worth it, though. For one thing, wiring that extra pipe to stdin or stdout in the child process would require some extra work...
Well, I probably could, but I doubt the result would be any better. I agree that I'm not sure the effort is worth it and would rather keep it the same.