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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 11:28:10 -0600 (MDT)
From: Darren Whittaker <djw@sage1.sagecorp.com>
To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, john.young@openmarket.com
Subject: Re: problem in 3.0 
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The code appeared to work until I set buf[0] = '\0'; at the start of the
loop, then only one message was displayed. Since err displays to std error
and I have to run this program from a browers I did not see any error
messages.

-Darren

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Darren Whittaker
Senior Software Engineer
Small Enterprise Group
Open Market, Inc.

On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Mike Smith wrote:

> > The fact of the matter is that date only returned output once, why did it
> > not return output 10 times?
> 
> No idea.  I can't make it fail in that fashion here, on a range of 
> -current systems from mid-September through yesterday's snapshot.
> 
> Does the following:
> 
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <err.h>
> 
> void main(void) 
> {
>         int     i, j;
>         char    buf[256];
>         FILE    *p;
> 
>         for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
>                 if ((p = popen("/bin/date", "r")) == NULL)
>                         err(1, "popen");
>                 fgets(buf, sizeof(buf) - 1, p);
>                 printf(buf);
>                 if ((pclose(p)) == -1)
>                         err(1, "pclose");
>         }
> }
> 
> do the "right" or the "wrong" thing?
> 
> > -Darren
> 
> -- 
> \\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
> \\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
> \\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
> \\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com
> 
> 
> 


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