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From: ntanaka@ARAGORN.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Nobuyoshi Tanaka)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug
Subject: Bug? in gawk-2.10
Message-ID: <NTANAKA.89Apr13114917@ARAGORN.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU>
Date: 13 Apr 89 15:49:17 GMT
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science
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I got gawk-2.10 yesterday and ran my awk script that had been made for
berkeley awk.  I found gawk-2.10 had a problem.

The awk script has the following statements;

    "basename " file | getline msg
    close("basename " file)

The above statements will be executed a lot of times.  After closing
a pipe, gawk left a defunct process.  Therefore, in a while, the
execution could not continue because of no more process.

Does anyone have any solution?  Thanks.
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