Is there a limit to os.popen()?

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In article <mailman.8047.1152659908.27775.python-list at python.org>,
 "Carl J. Van Arsdall" <cvanarsdall at mvista.com> wrote:

>Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> In article <mailman.8046.1152654954.27775.python-list at python.org>,
>>  "Carl J. Van Arsdall" <cvanarsdall at mvista.com> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Well, running the make on the command line seems to work just fine, no 
>>> errors at all.
>>>     
>>
>> What about running it as
>>
>>     make kernelrelease | cat
>>
>> This way the output goes to a pipe, which is what happens when it's 
>> called from your script. Do you see those "broken pipe" messages after a 
>> few minutes in this case?
>>   
>Alright, so I tried that line in the interpreter and got the same 
>problem.

No, I wanted you to try it from a bash command prompt, to try to 
simulate the environment when the make command on its own is invoked via 
popen.