Thanks a lot, it works well.

Greetings,

Nicolas

Ico Doornekamp a écrit :

• On 2008-08-05 Nicolas Montgermont nicolas_montgermont@yahoo.fr wrote :

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Hi Claude adn list,

Back again with my spelling function written in lua. I've got a problem in the terminal sometimes (pretty often in fact) :

error: lua: error in dispatcher: [string "lspell"]:13: echo fhdkq | /sw/bin/ispell -a | grep \*: Too many open files

when using my object "lspell.pd_lua", feeding the inlet with [symbol fhdkq( for example. When this error appears the object is not working. This error occurs in groups : appearing for 5-20 seconds and disappearing for 10 - 60 seconds. What exactly is this error?

You are not closing the pipe explicitly, and this causes a big pile of open file descriptors. Because the file descriptor is no longer referenced as it leaves the scope of your function, the garbage collector eventually comes along and collects the fd, closing the pipe on the fly.

The proper solution is to close the pipe when you're done, using p:close()