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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:57:25 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: nested popen()'s lead to fgets() failure on 64-bit only
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On Jan 13 22:41, David Levine wrote:
> Corinna wrote:
>=20
> > 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?
>=20
> That's it.  The machine needs to be rebooted every once in
> a while because it runs out of memory.
>=20
> I checked that FAQ but don't see the culprit.

Hmm.  Virus?  NSA keylogger?

> Should popen() report the failure?

It can't.  It doesn't see this failure and it's totally unexpected.


Corinna

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