Failure of popen and system calls ......

[Henry Spencer]

In article <439 at latvax8.lat.oz> MICPRF at latvax8.lat.oz writes:
>My problem is this - how do I stop unix system calls from failing
>due to lack of space when made from a large process....

This is almost certainly a kernel limitation, not something enforced
by the C library.  You need to talk to either your system supplier
or someone who knows what's going on in your particular flavor of
Unix kernel.  It could be a dozen things.

I've redirected followups away from comp.lang.c.
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