[Issue migrated from SourceForge | ID: 3080798 | Submitted by 'mtheo5']
[http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=3080798]

The script editors/scvim/bin/scvim_make_help never closes IO.popen(...) when it runs the command links (instead unhtml).
In this way it exceeds the maximum number of file descriptors that the processes may open, it blocks itself and some other processes.
I attach a patch to solve it.

Matteo Quintiliani

--- editors/scvim/bin/scvim_make_help(revision 10372)
+++ editors/scvim/bin/scvim_make_help(working copy)
@@ -175,7 +175,9 @@

def myunhtml(infile,outfile)
if $uselinks

• lines = IO.popen("links -dump -width 128 'file://#{infile}'").readlines
• fp = IO.popen("links -dump -width 128 'file://#{infile}'", "r")
• lines=fp.readlines
• fp.close_read
  #remove annoying spaces at beg of each line, first see if they are there
  hasAnnoyingSpaces = true
  lines.each do |line|