Re: [Pharo-users] OSProcess / OSSubprocess / LibC uniqueInstance

[Albrecht Baur via Pharo-users]

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Nice! This helps -> thanks for the explanation.

Albrecht

On 19.02.19 21:10, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:

Yeah, readme is out of date. 64 bits is working: https://github.com/pharo-contributions/OSSubprocess/issues/22

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 4:48 PM Alistair Grant <akgrant0...@gmail.com <mailto:akgrant0...@gmail.com>> wrote:

    On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 13:45, Albrecht Baur via Pharo-users
    <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org <mailto:pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>>
    wrote:
    >
    > Thank you.
    >
    > The Metacello snippet helps. It loads a newer version than that
    from the catalog browser.
    >
    >
    > But 2 more questions:
    >
    > 1.: Is there a reason not to use just ...
    >
    > LibC uniqueInstance system: 'zip -r 123.zip zipme/'

    You don't have the same level of control over the process, can't pipe
    stdio, it introduces issues with interrupts (SIGINT, SIGQUIT), etc.


    > And 2.: Is it ok to use OSSubprocess on in 64 bit images even
    though the documentation says it doesn't work ? (but it does)
    >
    > -> https://github.com/pharo-contributions/OSSubprocess#installation

    That's a surprise.  Yes, OSSubprocess is officially supported on 64
    bits, the readme is out of date.

    HTH,
    Alistair



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