Hello, I'm not 100% sure on this but to me it looks like there is a problem in your make file. I would look in there first, see where 'cat' is executed, I bet your problem will be around there.
Hope this helps, Colin Carl J. Van Arsdall wrote: > I'm not sure the proper way to phrase the question, but let me try. > > Basically, I'm working with a script where someone wrote: > > kr = string.strip(os.popen('make kernelrelease').read()) > > > And then searches kr to match a regular expression. > > This seems to have been working, however lately when this line executes > I get a number of messages to stderr after several minutes of execution: > > cat: write error: Broken pipe > cat: write error: Broken pipe > cat: write error: Broken pipe > > > I know the output from this make has been growing (make applies some > patches and the patch list is growing). Does os.popen() have some kind > of read buffer limit that i'm hitting which is causing things to break? > > > > > -- > > Carl J. Van Arsdall > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Build and Release > MontaVista Software -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list