From: utzoo!henry Newsgroups: hacknews Title: popen bug fixed Article-I.D.: utzoo.2749 Posted: Thu Jan 13 22:49:01 1983 Received: Thu Jan 13 22:49:01 1983 Fixed a bug in popen(3) reported on the net: it failed to close file descriptors if its fork() failed. Under slightly unusual conditions, this could cause serious trouble.