[PD] resend: popen vs shell bug

[Pedro Lopes]

Mystery discovered. Thanks Mathieu.
Should it be posted to the tracker?

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Mathieu Bouchard <matju at artengine.ca>wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Kim Cascone wrote:
>
>  when sent to [popen] it crashes Pd
>> but sending it to [shell] worked fine
>>
>
> [popen] does
>  char cmd[20] = "";
>
> and that's incredibly small. Change 20 to MAXPDSTRING, for example, though
> a really "proper" fix would completely prevent the problem even for commands
> bigger than MAXPDSTRING.
>
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