On Monday 20 December 2010 08:21:28 you wrote: > Could i use popen in some way ? somebody told me there is way around . It is possible to pass a file descriptor through UNIX sockets between unrelated processes. You could pass using this approach the file descriptors returned by popen. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html