On Feb 20, 2013, at 8:22 PM, Kyle Sluder <k...@ksluder.com> wrote:

> You can accomplish this without writing to the file system, but it
> involves foregoing NSTask. Fork, close stdin in the child process, open
> a pipe (so that the child gets the read end in fd 0), then exec the tool
> with "/dev/stdin" as the filename argument.

D’ohh! I’d forgotten about /dev/stdin. But why does this require abandoning 
NSTask? Its API supports redirecting input/output. Just call -[NSTask 
setStandardInput:].

—JEns
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