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From: leisner.henr@xerox.com (Marty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Minix sh wierdness
Message-ID: <2859@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 3 Jun 88 13:53:26 GMT
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Trying to unpack the V1.3 diffs, I had some problems.

I couldn't unshar on Ms/dos using my ms/dos utilities, so tried it on Minix.
What happened is after sh unshared 15 files, it appears to run out of file
descriptors (got a can't make pipe error message).  This fifteen number seems
consistent and repeatable.

I've had some problems with sh on different versions of Aztec C -- haven't
analyzed whether they're Aztec bugs or sh bugs.  

What appears to be opening is the sh isn't closing an open fd.  Has anyone else
had this problem (was there a fix posted somewhere?) or should I assume it's an
Aztec problem.  Can't see how it's a OS problem (everything else is running
pretty good [except I haven't yet been able to get ELLE to run]).

marty
leisner.henr@xerox.com