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On 9/8/2011 6:52 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:

>
> As I said, on Linux, if you call pclose twice in succession you get
> a SEGV.  I am comfortable with Cygwin's behavior especially since you
> seem to be seeing an actual program problem.

unlikely a octave issue as it SEGFAULT's only on cygwin,
and all the other platforms are fine: Linux, BSD, Apple.

I suspect more a borderline cygwin issue that octave
is just hitting. But of course I could be wrong.

>>
>> $ grep 'pipe:\[5\]'  octave.strace
>>     24     595 [main] sh 2840 fhandler_base::fixup_after_exec: here for
>> '/dev/fd/pipe:[5]'
>>     35 103396815 [main] octave-3.4.2 3664 fhandler_base::close: closing
>> '/dev/fd/pipe:[5]' handle 0x46C
>>     37     896 [main] gs 2840 fhandler_base::fixup_after_exec: here for
>> '/dev/fd/pipe:[5]'
>>     48   93072 [main] sh 2840! fhandler_base::close: closing
>> '/dev/fd/pipe:[5]' handle 0x46C
>>     31 2358333 [main] gs 2840 fhandler_base::close: closing
>> '/dev/fd/pipe:[5]' handle 0x46C
>>
>> but I guess they are the two sides of the pipe
>
> Well, one of them is in an execed process.  Some of the others are in
> different processes.
>
> cgf

I will further look

Marco



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