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Calling UNIX command hungs widget



Hi,

I'm using a commandline tool to pass data to my widget this way.

var output = widget.system( "/path/to/command", null ).outputString;

I wondered why my widget hung as the passed data grew.
The data that is passed to the stdout by the command is easily greater than 40kb.
First I thought there is a memory limit for variables in JavaScript.
But a shorter output concatenated with the same output ten times produced far more than 40kb in that variable.
Then I noticed something odd. I was not the widget that hung. It was the command.
Killing the command in the Activity Monitor revived the widget.
Since the command does not hung in the Terminal I think there is some oddity in the widget.system() thing.
It even hungs on "cat longtext.txt" if longtext.txt is long enough.
That is why I'm absolutely sure that it is not the fault of my commandline tool.
Please can someone verify that and tell me what to do?


Thanks,

Michael
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