Is there a limit to os.popen()?

[Carl J. Van Arsdall]

Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 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?
>   
Alright, so I tried that line in the interpreter and got the same 
problem.  So let me quickly state what I know, and what I'm starting to 
infer.

Anyhow, running make on the command line gives me no problems.  There 
are cats all over the makefile, I checked, but I don't seem to have any 
problems on the command line.  Now, when attempting to run this make in 
python things seem to go alright, except I get tons of errors dumped to 
the screen, its very confusing.  I don't know too much about pipes 
though or how exactly to go about debugging this.  Could it be something 
like, make's output is piped correctly but pipes used by cat within the 
makefile get screwed up inside python somehow?

-c




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