Using "Filtered View" gives error "Cannot create pipe streams"

[Ben Woods <woodsb02 gmail com>]

Hi,

I am maintaining the midnight commander port for FreeBSD, and I am seeing an error with v4.8.14.

When I use the "Filtered View" option from the File menu, and enter any filter (e.g. "*.c"), it gives me an error message "Cannot create pipe streams".

This error appears to be from the function mc_popen in file lib/utilunix.c (excerpt below). Any ideas how I can troubleshoot this further?

Thanks in advance,

Ben

/**

 * Create pipe and run child process.

 *

 * @parameter command command line of child process

 * @paremeter error contains pointer to object to handle error code and message

 *

 * @return newly created object of mc_pipe_t class in success, NULL otherwise

 */

mc_pipe_t *

mc_popen (const char *command, GError ** error)

{

    mc_pipe_t *p;

    char **argv;

    p = g_try_new (mc_pipe_t, 1);

    if (p == NULL)

    {

        mc_replace_error (error, MC_PIPE_ERROR_CREATE_PIPE, "%s",

                          _("Cannot create pipe descriptor"));

        goto ret_err;

    }

    if (!g_shell_parse_argv (command, NULL, &argv, error))

    {

        mc_replace_error (error, MC_PIPE_ERROR_PARSE_COMMAND, "%s",

                          _("Cannot parse command for pipe"));

        goto ret_err;

    }

    if (!g_spawn_async_with_pipes (NULL, argv, NULL, G_SPAWN_DO_NOT_REAP_CHILD, NULL, NULL,

                                   &p->child_pid, NULL, &p->out.fd, &p->err.fd, error))

    {

        mc_replace_error (error, MC_PIPE_ERROR_CREATE_PIPE_STREAM, "%s",

                          _("Cannot create pipe streams"));

        goto ret_err;

    }

...