On 07/30/2013 07:05 PM, Max wrote:
Am 30.07.2013 um 23:32 schrieb Jonathan Wilkes jancsika@yahoo.com:
Max- Are you experiencing dropouts from the subprocess stalling, or are you saying you're trying to avoid the possibility of dropouts. If it's the latter, then I'm having a hard time figuring out how two Pds connected through netsend would avoid dropouts. Also, what causes the freezes?
Cyrille has repeatedly said on this list that [pd~] is not the way to completely detach the two instances and that it one should use two instances instead. Never mind - I thought there was an elegant solution to launch another instance from a patch programmatically.
m.
Attached is a patch to s_path.c that fleshes out a pd_getdirname function which should return the executable's path on OSX, Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD. I don't have FreeBSD running so I didn't test that one.
Question: should this function print an error, or should it send an empty symbol on error and let the caller do that? I'm currently doing the latter when using the function in [pdinfo]-- that let's me tailor the error message to the relevant object which should help with user error report. (I.e., generate a "findable" error.)
Anyway if this looks good I'll go ahead and update [pdinfo] and add a "dir" method, or maybe a "pddir" method. (Suggestions welcome on method name.)
-Jonathan