On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:53:26PM -0700, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
>   Thank you, Dave!
> 
> I now understand that going through CommandShell was the sanctioned
> way of using PipeableOSProcess.  I'll just modify our code to close it
> explicitly.  (And it seems to work beter.)
> 
> I tried clearing the allMyChildren directory but did not seem to free
> these fds.  I tried:
> 
> PipeableOSProcess allSubInstancesDo: [:e | e closePipes]
> 
> but this do it seems to kill the VM.

Eeek! This should not be happening. PipeableOSProcess>>closePipes uses
StandardFileStream>>primCloseNoError: which does an fclose() to close
the pipe descriptor. This should be failure-proof, but I might be missing
something.

Is this reproduceable? It does not seem to happen on my Linux PC, but
maybe it is an intermittent failure of some kind.

Thanks,
Dave