@peller wrote:
You read my mind about the exec()… though I’m extremely rusty at unix/C++ so this trivial exercise may take me a while.
yeah, the exec way is definitely the Right Thing To Do, and fixes the zombie process thing on decoders that don’t exit on stdin closing (alac decoder, I’m talking about you).
Do look at that link, though, it’s got a popen-compatable interface for exec. Should be easy to drop in almost as-is.
— Ron