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<guix-vits>Hello daviid. This segfaults when button clicked (not mine code): http://paste.debian.net/1166073. Can i gather more info somehow?

<daviid>guix-vits: will look into this asap, tx for the report

<guix-vits>daviid: Thank U.

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<mwette>greetings!

<Blukunfando>Guileful greetings.

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<kahiru>hi guilers!

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<manumanumanu>kahiru: my response latency is too large! hello!

<manumanumanu>what are y'all up to?

<sneek>sneekn

<manumanumanu>yes you are, sneek

<Aurora_v_kosmose>Do pipe ports use file descriptors?

<Aurora_v_kosmose>Trying to determine if gc will do the right thing, or if I should explicitly close them.

<Aurora_v_kosmose>nvm me, manual says it takes care of it.

<manumanumanu>Aurora_v_kosmose: the GC will close any pipes left dangling

<manumanumanu>but why leave them?

<Aurora_v_kosmose>manumanumanu: Mostly aesthetics, no particular reason in this case.

<Aurora_v_kosmose>manumanumanu: Is there something to shell-quote a bit like Elisp's `shell-quote-argument'?

<manumanumanu>Aurora_v_kosmose: do you have an example of the elisp version?

<Aurora_v_kosmose>(shell-quote-argument "This one's a \"bit\" (forced) & all") => "This\\ one\\'s\\ a\\ \\\"bit\\\"\\ \\(forced\\)\\ \\&\\ all"

<Aurora_v_kosmose>In the end... it may or may not be necessary depending on how open-pipe* passes the arguments.

<manumanumanu>Aurora_v_kosmose: open-pipe* does not use the shell, so you don't need to quote them. open-pipe, however...

<Aurora_v_kosmose>Alright, sounds like less trouble then.

<manumanumanu>but then you need to know the full path to whatever you are trying to run.

<Aurora_v_kosmose>In this case that works out reasonably-well.

<dsmith>Aurora_v_kosmose: gc usually happens because of memory pressure. Not really good to rely on that to clean up fd's. You could run out, depending on memory allocations..

<dsmith>I think it's a good idea to always clean up non-memory resources when you can.

<Aurora_v_kosmose>Pipes don't count as fd's though, do they?

<Aurora_v_kosmose>Ah I see.

<Aurora_v_kosmose>We're missing quite a few with-x-from-y helpers

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