[pd] shell and ongoing processes

[Yves Degoyon]

hi,

did you consider using netsend/netreceive
in your patches, i use them to cummunicate
with Apache's CGIS and it's stable.

for some other reason,
one might want what you ask.

for instance, if you want to open
a connection to a database
and keep a cache of fetched datas
( in php, perl or whatever, ... )

cheers,

yves

Bo.T wrote:

 >Hi all,
 >
 >  since i seem to have the usual habit of asking questions that
 >no one else knows the answer to either, i thought i'D ask
 >an easy one.
 >
 >  can the ggee shell external start a process (via a shell script)
 >that keeps going?
 >
 >  I keep trying it and it does not want to work, the ps aux
 >command gives [pd <defunct>], which seems to correspond to
 >the nonrunning process that I am trying to run.
 >
 >  for those interested, i am trying to get PD to start
 >a script that used pdsend and pdreceive objects to
 >act as an interface for the PD process to other programs.
 >I would like to be able to do this so I can have a little
 >local patch that I call up with unique port numbers as
 >arguments and they will be used for communication
 >between the main PD patch and the external programs. Doing
 >all this by hand is a pain in the bum.
 >
 >  Hope someone can tell me, or tell me that it is not possible.
 >I thought i had seen this on the list, but cannot find it
 >anymore :-<
 >
 >chrz,
 >
 >tm
 >
 >