[Zope] zombies and popenN()

[Dennis Allison]

I'm not sure that the problem is pipe lock.  I will give it a try,
however.

On Tue, 25 May 2004, Chris Withers wrote:

> Dennis Allison wrote:
> 
> > I suppose the simplest workaround would be to manage the pipes and htmldoc
> > process myself rather than delegating it to popenN().
> 
> sounds like you might be getting pipe lock where two streams are blocking and so 
> locking everything up...
> 
> Have a look at this:
> http://cvs.zope.org/Packages/TestScripts/autotester.py.diff?r1=1.6&r2=1.7
> 
> ...which solved the problem outside of Zope when I ran into it.
> 
> Be interesting to see how it fares fro mwithin Zope...
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
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