I'll have to investigate more to work out why the instability happens. Just a note on:
> It's the pipe that's used to communicate between the processes, the > fdopen creates buffers which do need to be independent. The fdopen calls are used to get a FILE* for the integer file handle which are only used as return values in the array that is returned to the caller - only the parent process uses it. That's why I made the assumption it's safe to move the calls to after the fork, and happening only in the parent process. I will investigate more though why the instability occurs. There's an additional bug I get where 1!:20 segfaults if 2!:2 has been used. When generating the table of file handle and filename mappings it appears to not like the entries added by 2!:2. Possibly something in the jtjadd2 function or in the function that handles 1!:20 itself. Do you see this issue on your machine? This repeats it for me: 2!:2 '/bin/ls' 9701 94708241802784 94708241803344 1!:20 '' Segmentation fault (core dumped) -- http://bluishcoder.co.nz ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
