[pd] shell and ongoing processes

[Bryan Jurish]

morning,

 > 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.
 [snip]

i've had this this problem as well; basically what i'd like
is an "interpreter" object that feeds its inlet to stdin
and passes stdout to its outlet, 'shell' didn't work for
me, either :-(

On 24 May 2002 at 19:24:07, Yves Degoyon wrote:
 > 
 > hi,
 > 
 > did you consider using netsend/netreceive
 > in your patches, i use them to cummunicate
 > with Apache's CGIS and it's stable.

i've tried this too; the thing is, i'm lazy and would like to
be able to control the whole complex from within pd; as it is,
i have to start the 'netreceive | my-interpreter | netsend'
pipeline by hand, which can be a pain in the wazoo.

maybe i'll actually get around to writing such a wrapper
once my interpreter gets fixed up a bit ;-)

marmosets,
	Bryan