hi,

did you consider using netsend/netreceive in your patches, i use them to cummunicate with Apache's CGIS and it's stable.

for some other reason, one might want what you ask.

for instance, if you want to open a connection to a database and keep a cache of fetched datas ( in php, perl or whatever, ... )

cheers,

yves

Bo.T wrote:

Hi all,

since i seem to have the usual habit of asking questions that no one else knows the answer to either, i thought i'D ask an easy one.

can the ggee shell external start a process (via a shell script) that keeps going?

I keep trying it and it does not want to work, the ps aux command gives [pd <defunct>], which seems to correspond to the nonrunning process that I am trying to run.

for those interested, i am trying to get PD to start a script that used pdsend and pdreceive objects to act as an interface for the PD process to other programs. I would like to be able to do this so I can have a little local patch that I call up with unique port numbers as arguments and they will be used for communication between the main PD patch and the external programs. Doing all this by hand is a pain in the bum.

Hope someone can tell me, or tell me that it is not possible. I thought i had seen this on the list, but cannot find it anymore :-<

chrz,

tm