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

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Mathieu Bouchard <matju@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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