On Feb 20, 2013, at 8:30 PM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > > 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:].
Because you can't use CF (and by extension, Foundation) after calling fork. --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ 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
