No I have not but it is certainly
very interesting info.

Thank you,
JB


> On Jun 28, 2017, at 5:43 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode 
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> JB wrote:
> 
> > When using argv it has a character limit. I think it
> > might be different on different systems but you can
> > probably use a few thousand characters for each
> > argument.  You can have as many arguments as
> > memory can handle.  Probably thousands.  You
> > should refer to a file for larger data.
> 
> Have you looked into passing data with pipes (stdin/stdout)?
> 
> If the process will be long-running and used for multiple events, sockets may 
> be another option.
> 
> Reading up on how some folks pass data between processes on Linux servers it 
> seems the shared memory RAM disk automatically mounted at /run/shm can be 
> useful.  In some brief tests here it was about 9 times faster than my fastest 
> SSD, and a lot simpler than sockets.  In LC SHM works great with normal file 
> I/O commands.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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