> 	Garbage collecting the subprocesses and file descriptors would make 
> this a bit more straightforward.

The problem with this approach is that the "close" and "wait"
system calls have side effects.  I don't like the idea of a GC
that has side effects other than the memory size of the program
(and finalisation functions, of course).

-- Damien

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