Can't Create Child Processes

I’m doing a goodly amount of file management in one of my post-processing scripts where I am gunzipping and re-gzipping data before and behind me as I march through a lot of model output.

Recently, I’ve been hitting these errors when I use the function “systemfunc”:

fatal:systemfunc: cannot create child process:[errno=12]

Ideas? Note that the system() subroutine yields no such error. BUT. Instead, it fails to execute the requested shell command and keeps going drunkenly onward until it tries to open a file that hasn’t been gunziped or similar crash.

Thanks Much
Bill

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Received on Mon Sep 27 14:20:38 2010