> 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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What version of the system are you running?
Thanks,
jl
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