I stand corrected - iOS fork() refuses to work. On Oct 22, 2013, at 11:59, Clark S. Cox III <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Oct 21, 2013, at 20:02, Maxthon Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > >> No, this pipe/fork/dup2/exec is used in App Store apps - > > No. I am sorry, but you are wrong. > >> iSSH is an example as it used its separate PuTTY executable. > > iSSH does not use a separate executable. It is not possible to do so from a > 3rd party iOS app. > >> Maybe straight fork() is not available but is there some replacement like >> posix_spawn()? iOS itself need some sort of mechanism to fork/exec or there >> will be no apps. > > Any attempt to create a new process (whether by fork or posix_spawn or > whatever) will fail if called from a 3rd party iOS app. > >> >> On Oct 22, 2013, at 10:56, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Oct 21, 2013, at 7:02 PM, ChanMaxthon <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> 2) You can still use classic UNIX function calls to pipe/fork/dup2/exec >>> >>> I think this is another of those “…ok, only if you jailbreak your device or >>> maybe if you’re building an enterprise-only app” things, right? You should >>> really make that clear, because I bet the vast majority of people here are >>> writing for the App Store. > > -- > Clark Smith Cox III > [email protected] >
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