On Apr 1, 2008, at 7:19 PM, Martin Redington wrote:

I'm running /sbin/md5 via an NSTask on a number of files (3,000 or so, with a new NSTask each time).

I know the "unix way" is to string together small purpose built tools via pipes.

But it strikes me that NSTask is the wrong hammer for this nail. Computing an md5 programatically yourself is probably the better solution, regardless of the leaky file descriptor problem you are having.

Jim

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