JohnSundell / JohnSundell/ShellOut
NSInternalInconsistencyException occurs when shellOut is run too many times
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Description
I've already opened a [PR](https://github.com/JohnSundell/ShellOut/pull/78) for this issue, but wanted to open an issue for documenting purposes.
Copy-pasta from the PR description:
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I have a Swift CLI that utilizes ShellOut to interact with binary executables. When I use `shellOut` too many times, I sometimes hit an exception that looks something like:
```
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Failed to set posix_spawn_file_actions for fd -1 at index 0 with errno 9'
*** First throw call stack:
(
0 CoreFoundation 0x00000001859672ec __exceptionPreprocess + 176
1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x000000018544e788 objc_exception_throw + 60
2 Foundation 0x0000000186a92eb4 -[NSConcreteTask launchWithDictionary:error:] + 4240
```
I've been able to determine this is due to the `Pipe` objects from ShellOut not being closed properly.
I've included an example project that demonstrates the issue:
[NSExceptionExample.zip](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/15527111/NSExceptionExample.zip)
Steps:
1. Unzip the example library and `cd NSExceptionExample`
2. Run `swift run NSExceptionExample`
3. While that command is still running, in a separate terminal window, run `ps aux | grep NSExceptionExample` and take note of the PID.
4. Run `lsof -p | wc -l`
5. Notice how this number is quite large. Also notice that running again shows the number increasing.
6. If the `swift` command runs long enough, you'll hit an exception like the above.
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