> On 29/04/07, Daniel <email@hidden> wrote:
>> it is the first time I work with Cocoa and I wanted to know if there
>> is a way to launch a second application from the running one (and for
>> that I have found something) _and_ additionally being able to montior
>> this process/application in such a way to know exactly which file it
>> has opened for writing, which one he has created.
>>
>
> Creating a child process is pretty simple using NSTask (although, is
> there a specific reason you want to use a child process and not a
> thread?).
>
> However, getting a list of the open files is not a trivial task
Just use the aforementioned simple NSTask to run 'lsof'. :-)
Well... yes. But, I've always considered doing that to be a bit of a
hack, especially when there's a more robust path available (albeit,
confusing and complicated).
Or, if you know *where* the files will be opened, just watch that
directory with kqueue.
Or a Spotlight query, which has the added benefit of being in Cocoa.
