> On 22 Jul 2016, at 8:22, Uli Kusterer <witness.of.teacht...@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
If that fixes it and it's not documented, please file a bug against the docs.


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