Hi, Hans Hagen wrote:

Thanh Han The wrote:

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I can reproduce the problem, but have no idea how to fix it. pdftex crashes when a pclose is called in aclose(), file openclose.c. But I don't know anything about pipes in pdftex -- it was done by other people.

it's ok on windows, so it must be a unix lib problem (not sure where the differences between platforms are in code)

Found it, my bad. I malloced() one byte short in the version of the patch that is used now, Windows apparently doesn't care about that, but it breaks on Unix (most of the time). It used to work OK, I am quite sure of that, so it looks like there was a mixup somewhere along the line. I have a two-line change for texmfmp.c, attached. Martin, should I commit this to TL or do you have other pending patches? Best, Taco

Martin Schröder wrote:

2007/1/5, Taco Hoekwater :

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Martin, should I commit this to TL or do you have other pending patches?

Please commit; this is web2c and not really pdftex.

OK, done, TL is updated. I assume you will pick this fix up for the (eventual) 1.40.1 release. Best, Taco