Normally, when a parent exits, all child processes are killed. This is not specific to terminal/tty sessions. However, a process can be detached from its parent so that it will survive the parent's exit. I doubt that NSTask does this, but you should verify.
Create a dummy helper: int main() {while(1) sleep(1);} Use NSTask to launch it. Kill your parent in various ways and verify that the child gets killed: kill -9, call abort, crash it with the time-honored *(char*)0 = 0. -- Scott Ribe scott_r...@elevated-dev.com http://www.elevated-dev.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottribe/ (303) 722-0567 voice _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com