<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>Seems like a good time to take inventory on the options here, since there seem to be many:</div><div><br></div><div>flatspace/popen (aka control/popen)</div><div>moonlib/popen</div><div>motex/system</div><div>ggee/shell</div><div><br></div><div>To me, moonlib/popen looks better than flatspace/popen since it allows reading and writing to the pipe.</div><div><br></div><div>.hc</div><br><div><div>On Jun 28, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Pedro Lopes wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Yes. Crashes here as you mentioned. (shell ok, popen not)<br><br>======= Backtrace: =========<br>/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x48)[0x20e008]<br>/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0x20d040]<br>/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6[0x20c36a]<br> /usr/lib/pd-extended/extra/flatspace/popen.pd_linux[0x77abeb]<br>pdextended(pd_typedmess+0x1fc)[0x80b613c]<br>======= Memory map: =======<br>(too big for posting... if it is useful i can attach it.)<br><br>Ubuntu karmic rt 32 bits<br> Pd version 0.42-5extended-20100530<br>compiled 09:02:05 May 30 2010<br><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Pedro Lopes<br>contacto: <a href="mailto:jazz@radiozero.pt">jazz@radiozero.pt</a><br>website: <a href="http://web.ist.utl.pt/Pedro.Lopes">http://web.ist.utl.pt/Pedro.Lopes</a> <br> </blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>"We have nothing to fear from love and commitment." - New York Senator Diane Savino, trying to convince the NY Senate to pass a gay marriage bill</div></span></span> </div><br></body></html>