Thread: Placement of pclose

I'm wanting to open a stream with popen at the beginning of my app - do other things within the app, then close the stream. My question is:

Do I need to immediately pclose after popen or can I leave it open to keep collecting the stream while my app does other work?

Originally Posted by cwr

In future, you should probably direct questions about non-standard C function behaviour in an appropriate platform specific forum. In the case of popen/pclose, the Linux programming forum would be most appropriate.

Thanks for your response. Sorry, I'm new to C and I don't know what functions are specific to what platform.

Thanks