On Jan 18, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Andrew wrote: > I am trying to write a program that maintains different installs of > another program including launching the program. To do so, I am using > NSTask. Now when I quit my cocoa app. the NSTask app dies. … > According to what I have read, the application should keep > running even when the parent task exits.
Nope. In Unix, a process is killed when its parent process exits. This is one reason why you shouldn't launch application processes directly :) Instead, use NSWorkspace to launch the app (or call LaunchServices directly if you prefer a C API.) This starts it up in the normal way, as a subprocess of your login session’s main launchd process. —Jens _______________________________________________ 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
