is their any limit on the size of the data passed to a progra m via popen2?

[husam]

Gustavo Cordova wrote:

> That doing a read() on pipes hangs, so you have to
> define a timeout or something, so that you can take
> control back.
> 
> But I dinnae kno how ta do such a thang.
> 
> :-/
> 
> -gus
> 
> pd: I *think* it was jeff.
> 
> 

Ya, I red that one. But, now the problem is that running the code 
succefully really depends on the number of the files passed to the 
application in one "popen2" session. I found that the number of the 
files must not exceed 250. I worked around this by splitting the 10000 
files into 50 lists each of them contains 200 files and for each list 
opening a "popen2" session and close it at the end in a "for" loop. Now 
the code works fine. I have searched the internet for informations 
related to the size of the pipe and how to modify it, but I found 
nothing except "select.select()". At the moment I really don't have time 
to implement this.

any way, thanks for the contribution.