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Re: 5th anniversary of buggy system/popepn/popen2
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Miroslaw Kwasniak |
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Re: 5th anniversary of buggy system/popepn/popen2 |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:18:37 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i |
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 09:31:36AM -0700, Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
> For what it worth: I have never seen any problems with ls, not before (back
> with
> RedHat 9) not now (Fedora Core 3). Mirek's test just keeps on printing
> dots...
I didn't observed until David pointed on it :)
How long sequence of dots you've seen. I had sometimes >100 and at another run
only 2.
It's may be related to libraries (Debian sarge has mach older) or hardware.
Can you say about your machine: CPU, memory size?
> I do have problems with another Mirek's test (with popen/popen2).
> When it finishes it gives the following result:
>
>
> 21 1 2 3 4
> 1 0 0 21 0
> 2 0 0 21 0
Like in my ugly hack.
> Sometimes it just dies half-way through (returns to octave prompt) and does
> not
> give the final "report" output.
Can you provide at which poit it crashes?
A try if pause works with popen2:
[i,o,p]=popen2('/bin/ls'); pause(5), 1
on my comp it display 1 without a delay :(
Mirek
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