[PD] old process still running

Marc Lavallée marc at hacklava.net
Mon Nov 14 18:38:48 CET 2005


Le 14 Novembre 2005 11:42, Alexandre Quessy a écrit :
> Le 05-11-14, à 10:57, Ed Kelly a écrit :
> > Apologies for the wait - I tried your patch and it
> > didn't work! I made a patch to examine the problem, it
> > seems that when the zombie is still running the right
> > output does not get banged. The kill seems to make no
> > difference, but then I guess that's why it's a zombie!
>
> Yeah, as I was explaining in an other thread,
> http://lists.puredata.info/pipermail/pd-list/2005-11/032673.html :
>
> """
> curl "http://www.sourcelibre.com/puredata/rpc.php?foo=bar&hello=world" &
>
> I think it *is* better to use the & operator of the shell when using
> [shell].

I don't think so. 
& sends the curl process in the background. 
You don't want that.
--
Marc




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