The bug is an extra call to fopen in stock.c -- Every time it writes stock
data to an individual stock/symbol file, it opens the file twice, dropping
the FILE struct pointer for the first open. The program runs continuously,
so the files stay open, and are re-opened whenever updated stock data is
written. Eventually those "opens" fill up the system's file table (a fixed-
size structure that keeps track of I/O to/from files that are currently in
use). That condition is not fatal, so the system, and the "x" program, keep
running, but no more files can be opened, which prevents any more programs
from being run.
Here's a patch to fix it:
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*** stock.c~ Thu Dec 23 10:17:57 1993
--- stock.c Tue Feb 8 21:56:34 1994
***************
*** 331,337 ****
}
return;
}
- fp = fopen(line, "a");
if ((fp = fopen(line, "a")) == NULL)
fprintf(stderr,"OPEN STOCK %s FAILED %s\n",line,
sys_errlist[errno]);
--- 331,336 ----
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Apart from this minor annoyance, I am sincerely grateful to all of the folks
who had a hand in developing this marvelous facility.
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