Can use fork and execl in gstream program

[Sebastian Dröge]

On Di, 2013-10-29 at 14:26 +0800, sung descent wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I read the artcile:
> http://www.linuxprogrammingblog.com/threads-and-fork-think-twice-before-using-them
> 
> I find the gstream will generate 8 thread in my system when play a video
> file.
> Can I use fork and execl to run a command?

Yes, but just fork() and continuing in the child process without
replacing the executable code to some other binary will not work (in
general).

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Sebastian Dröge <sebastian at centricular.com>
Centricular Ltd - http://www.centricular.com
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