klaussilveira/gitlist — pull request #112 by xqwzts (2012-07-23 12:37:15+00:00)
Title: fallback to popen() if proc_open() is disabled

Some shared hosting [nearlyfreespeech.net] disable proc_open() even if not running PHP in safe_mode. This will check if proc_open() is not available and fallback on a read-only popen() process.
Will at least allow basic functionality.