Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: apctrc!cra2!zjat02@uunet.uu.net (Jon A. Tankersley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: f77 and dynamic memory? + responses to previous questions Keywords: Software Message-ID: <851@apctrc.UUCP> Date: 17 May 89 18:25:33 GMT References: <8904202125.AA01698@mira.astro.ucla.edu> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Amoco Production Company, Tulsa Research Center Lines: 11 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 10 May 89 21:16:44 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 291, message 7 of 16 In article <8904202125.AA01698@mira.astro.ucla.edu> jon@astro.ucla.edu (Jonathan Eisenhamer) writes: >The problem is that, under 3.5 f77(1), a call to system(3f) would >result in all opened files being set to the end-of-file.... There is a patch for system() for 3.5 f77. We were losing fd's after system calls. This was before they increased the number of possible active fd's... We'd still have lost them though with the bug... -tank- #include /* nobody knows the trouble I .... */ tank@apctrc.trc.amoco.com ..!uunet!apctrc!tank