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From: David Levine <levinedl@acm.org>
Subject: Re: nested popen()'s lead to fgets() failure on 64-bit only
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:19:29 +0100
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 22:41:45 -0500
Message-ID: <18851-1389670905.499863@O9-L.JhBD.5zL0>

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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