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Re: nested popen()'s lead to fgets() failure on 64-bit only
- From: David Levine <levinedl at acm dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 22:41:45 -0500
- Subject: Re: nested popen()'s lead to fgets() failure on 64-bit only
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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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