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As stated in the title I am currently trying to run an commandline tool from a vlc lua extension I've written.
Therefore I use os.execute(command).
After the lua script executes this command VLC will shortly after report, that the extension crashed and asks me to kill it.

Is there anything I have to consinder when using os.execute in VLC?
Can the execetuted commandline script crash the lua extension somehow?

Thanks in advance

Is the extension maybe waiting for the commandline? You could try closing the commandline immediately after it opens, but that would only tell you that you can't use os.execute... so yeah

If calculations of running extension take too long time (more than 10 seconds) or the extension waits too long time for completion of a Lua command, the following dialog appears:

Extension not responding! [x]
Extension 'extension' does not respond.
Do you want to kill it now?
[Yes]

There is a bug somewhere in the "killer of extensions" as it often causes crash of VLC.

The problem is, the executed commandline command has to run for as long as it takes to finish.
But after some while VLC responds with the above mentioned message.
Is it possible to start a commandline and from within this commandline start a new one and kill the one that vlc created?

*EDIT*

This seems to be a viable solution