Strange problems with subprocess

[kyosohma at gmail.com]

On Aug 1, 2:20 am, Michele Petrazzo <michele.petra... at TOGLIunipex.it>
wrote:
> Hi all. I have a simple "ping tester" program that, every 1 minute
> (execute by linux crontab), create, with subprocess, a
> "ping -c 1 my_addrs". All work, but sometime (about 1/2 times at a day),
> I receive this error message:
>
> File "/exports/srv-wipex/net_test/ping_tester.py", line 88, in pyPing
>    cmd_p = Popen(cmd, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
> File "subprocess.py", line 543, in __init__
>    errread, errwrite)
> File "subprocess.py", line 970, in _execute_child
>    data = os.read(errpipe_read, 1048576) # Exceptions limited to 1 MB
>
> What can be that raise this?
>
> Python 2.4 in deb etch
>
> Thanks,
> Michele

This doesn't look like a complete traceback. It doesn't give what the
error was.

Mike