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Re: nested popen()'s lead to fgets() failure on 64-bit only


Corinna wrote:

> Your PID values are pretty suspicious.  Even on a busy machine they
> should seldomly have more than 4 digits, let alone 6.  The PIDs are only
> getting high if process and other handles are hold and not closed by
> another process.  This looks a lot like a BLODA problem.  Did you
> check against http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#faq.using.bloda?

That's it.  The machine needs to be rebooted every once in
a while because it runs out of memory.

I checked that FAQ but don't see the culprit.

Should popen() report the failure?

Thank you for your help.

David

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