On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 12:01:25PM +0500, david jhon wrote:
> I want to run a command from inside openvswitch code from
> ofproto/ofproto-dpif-xlate.c. with popen(), openvswitch compiles and runs
> successfully but it does not run command.
> 
> With system(), openvswitch fails to compile with following error:
> 
> blacklisted due to thread safety issues. I tried running system command
> with ovs_mutex lock and unlock routines, but it makes no difference.
> 
> Please let me know what am I doing wrong here. How could a linux command be
> run from openvswitch. Your help/guidance in this regard will be highly
> valuable and appreciated.

It's probably a bad idea to do this.  The error is because POSIX says
that system() need not be thread safe.

There may be a better way to accomplish what you're trying to do.
What are you trying to do?
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