On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Ammar Ibrahim <ammar.ibra...@gmail.com> wrote: > To sum up, you mean I should use osascript in a separate process? How can I > achieve that, and how can I have this separate process communicate back to > the main process?
NSTask creates child processes. The general term is "forking", because the fork(2) syscall is how one actually tells the kernel "make a new child process for me, please." Communication between your parent and child process falls under the umbrella term Inter-Process Communication (IPC). There are a couple of IPC primitives in OS X: Mach ports, UNIX signals, UNIX pipes, sockets, and Apple Events are all primitives*. You can choose whichever suits your needs best. Hopefully these terms will help inform your research. --Kyle Sluder * They're "primitive" at some layer of abstraction. Under the hood, one "primitive" might actually be implemented on top of another. _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
