Re: A potential bug (gawk .bat files)

[Paul Eggert]

Shahar Liani <address@hidden> writes:

> I’m unsuccessfully trying to deal with an error message that I get
> when trying to start 2 gawk processes simultaneously.  The message
> is "Batch file cannot be found" and it is received when issuing
> "gawk -f file1.awk" and "gawk -f file2.awk" at the same time.  I
> guess it got something to do with the pip#.bat files that gawk uses
> From my temp directory.

> I have 3 question:
> 1.    Is multi-processing supported in my gawk version or any other version?

It's supported and works on GNU and Unix platforms, but apparently
there's a problem on some Microsoft Windows platforms.

> 2.    Can you tell me more about the pip#.bat files roll?

I think they're used by the PC version of the system("....") call.

> 3.    Is there any way for me to set a directory (other then "Temp")
>       for those bat files to be created?

I'm no expert on your platform, but I'd try setting the TMP and/or
TEMP and/or TMPDIR environment variables.