Wait for the child proc after closing the r2pipe to free resources. Without this fix the child process is not properly closed on a call to close().I experience this when spawing lot of pipes.
On some systems, calling wait or similar is necessary for the OS to release resources.
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The standard library does not automatically wait on child processes (not even if the Child is dropped),
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Wait for the child proc after closing the r2pipe to free resources. Without this fix the child process is not properly closed on a call to
close().I experience this when spawing lot of pipes.This seems to match the docs:
On some systems, calling wait or similar is necessary for the OS to release resources....The standard library does not automatically wait on child processes (not even if the Child is dropped),...
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