On 21 Jul 2016, at 17:20, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote: > One of my apps uses NSTask to wrap a command line utility that is embedded in > the same app’s resources. This utility writes files to disk - I have no > knowledge of which APIs it uses to do this. If the task has ended (and I can > see that the actual instance of the running command line tool has disappeared > from my process tasks in Activity Monitor), and I send the file to the trash, > I can’t delete it (empty trash) until the app as a whole is quit - I get the > message that the file is still in use. > > I’ve checked that I’m closing down the NSTask properly, as far as I can see. > > Is this the expected behaviour?
Are you reading all the data from the task (i.e. its standardOutput, not the file) before you close it? AFAIR that's a prerequisite for it to properly close. Cheers, -- Uli Kusterer "The Witnesses of TeachText are everywhere..." http://stacksmith.org _______________________________________________ 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
