Subject: [sup-talk] [PATCH] shell commands are now run in a child process

From: [email-masked] (William Morgan)
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:48:19 -0800

Reformatted excerpts from Christopher Warrington's message of 2008-02-20:
> I wouldn't right now. I was getting ruby seg. faults with the code I
> submitted and ruby 1.8.6 (ruby bug? I don't know). Changing to code
> that closes open files descriptors until the first invalid file
> descriptor is encountered closes enough that I don't get the crash,
> but also doesn't cause a seg. fault.

Well, this wouldn't be the most cargo-cultish code that's in Sup. (See
previous message about ncurses.)

I'll keep this patch on the back burner, then, until we have a little
more experience. Is anyone else out there using Cygwin?

-- 
William <wmorgan-sup at masanjin.net>

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From: [email-masked] (Christopher Warrington)
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:42:09 -0600

William Morgan @ 2008-2-25 11:48:19 AM
"[sup-talk] [PATCH] shell commands are now run in a child process" <mid:1203961671-sup-8158 at south>

I've been getting more of these when playing with offlineimap. I
submitted a bug upstream:
http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/ticket/343

-- 
Christopher Warrington <chrisw at rice.edu>

Today's Oxymoron: Twelve-ounce pound cake
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From: [email-masked] (William Morgan)
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:37:35 -0800

> http://ferret.davebalmain.com/trac/ticket/343

And it looks like Dave is back maintaining Ferret, so this might
actually get addressed. That's great.