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Re: running out of NSPipes
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Re: running out of NSPipes


  • Subject: Re: running out of NSPipes
  • From: justin webster <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:21:40 +1200

I guess it may be a bug.
I achieved more or less the same thing bypassing NSTask and NSPipe and now have no issues with resource management.
the trick, I think, was fflush() and pclose(). perhaps NSPipe is missing some tidy-up code.
there probably are more efficient ways of doing this but efficiency is not really a concern in my case.


for the record - here's an example which works:
	int f;
	for(f=0; f<5000; f++){
		fflush(nil);
		FILE *rtn = popen([@"ls" cString], [@"r" cString]);
		//here we use the output of the pipe
		pclose(rtn);
	}

thanks for the help
justin

On 19/04/2008, at 12:15 PM, Ken Thomases wrote:

On Apr 18, 2008, at 6:05 PM, justin webster wrote:
I'm pretty sure I've got everything alloc'ing and releasing in the right way

I agree. It all looks correct. It may very well be a bug in the framework.


One last thing to check: does some part of your code register for the NSTaskDidTerminateNotification notification, presumably without specifying a task object, but listening for all of them? If so, might it be retaining the notification object which is the task object?

If there's no other explanation, I recommend that you file a bug at bugreport.apple.com.


That said, to accomplish what you need I recommend that you use sysctl(3) to get the information from the system directly without launching the ps process. Here's some code from Apple that you can adapt: http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1123.html


Good luck,
Ken


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