Re: Shouldn't pclose() be used on FILE * created by popen() in libbalsa/pop.c?



On 2001.07.25 02:20:41 +0200 John Merryweather Cooper wrote:
> I'm trying to stomp on a bug, and I think I've found it.
> 
> I use procmail to filter my mail with Balsa.  But the longer I allow Balsa
> to run the more "zombie" procmail processes I end up with--often several
> hundred!
> 
> I think this is happening because popen() is being used to start procmail
> at the end of a pipe, but fclose is being used to close the pipe. 
> Shouldn't this be pclose()?  My man pages on popen/pclose seem to  say so.
> 
> I should note that I'm running FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE, maybe this isn't a
> problem for Linux?

i filter my emails through procmail on linux and i dont get these
zombie processes.

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