Re: 5th anniversary of buggy system/popepn/popen2

[mirek]

Hi again,

On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 10:32:28AM +0100, David Bateman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yeah I'd love to get this problem fixed as well. The fact is an easier
> way to demonstrate it is with "ls", but doesn't use exactly the same
> mechanism as popen. ls uses iprocstrem and popen uses the
> octave_iprocstream. The fact that the two functions fail in the same
> way, using similar but slightly different functionality lead me to
> believe that the problem was in the underlying gnu libraries. It would
> be interesting to see what happens under the intel compilers or the
> very very latest gnu compilers and see if the problem is solved...

I've read again ;) Thanks for some suggestions. I'll try find more details.

Mirek

PS

Do you know what other (related to that problem) differences then
*iprocstream are between popen and ls?
Why `#undef SIGCHLD' trick doesn't improve ls?



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