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RE: 4355 pipe handlers open at once - is this to be 'expect'ed?


On 21 March 2006 12:21, Dave Korn wrote:

> Subject: 4355 pipe handlers open at once - is this to be 'expect'ed?

  D'oh.  "Handles".  Not "handlers".  D'oh.

>   As you know, most of what expect does involves invoking child processes
> and talking to them via their stdio channels.  It strikes me that something
> may be leaking pipe handles to a popen'd child process 

  Which on five minutes closer inspection would turn out to be a newlib issue,
since cygwin relies on newlib's popen.  Double d'oh, sorry 'bout the noise.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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