Is there a limit to os.popen()?

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In article <mailman.8046.1152654954.27775.python-list at python.org>,
 "Carl J. Van Arsdall" <cvanarsdall at mvista.com> wrote:

>Well, running the make on the command line seems to work just fine, no 
>errors at all.

What about running it as

    make kernelrelease | cat

This way the output goes to a pipe, which is what happens when it's 
called from your script. Do you see those "broken pipe" messages after a 
few minutes in this case?