From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net (William Morgan) Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:12:23 -0800 Subject: [sup-talk] [PATCH] shell commands are now run in a child process In-Reply-To: <1202239755-sup-3523@chris-tablet> References: <1202026272-3432-2-git-send-email-chrisw@rice.edu> <1202232814-sup-1005@south> <1202239755-sup-3523@chris-tablet> Message-ID: <1202241831-sup-1777@south> Reformatted excerpts from Christopher Warrington's message of 2008-02-05: > No, it's not elegant at all. mbox sources do still work, though. I > only close the files in the child process. They remain open in sup's > main process. Oh, I see. Sorry, I misread the patch. It would be good to understand this a bit more. Why are the Ferret errors caused by open filehandles? And Windows supports fork now? I thought that didn't work. -- William