Oh crap, NOW I get it. :P You don't have to do the fork dance at all. Just call -setStandardInput: and pass /dev/stdin as the filename argument. Let NSTask take care of the rest.
--Kyle Sluder On Wed, Feb 20, 2013, at 08:30 PM, Jens Alfke 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:]. > > —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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
