Re: Spawning separate processes with "do shell script"
Re: Spawning separate processes with "do shell script"
- Subject: Re: Spawning separate processes with "do shell script"
- From: garbanzito <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:36:12 -0700
at 2002 03 24, 13:10 -0500, they whom i call Adrian wrote:
I have tried this, but it doesn't work. I believe that AppleScript
is not blocking on output, but rather waiting for the sh process to
exit. Is there perhaps a more general way to fork off the command?
Any other suggestions would be welcome.
hmm, i have tried it several times and it *did* work. yes AS
is blocking on the shell process, but the shell process is
blocking on the output of its child process. if you
background the child process, and redirect its output, the
shell process terminates and leaves the child process
running. i have even created root-owned processes that
stayed alive past logout with this technique. perhaps there
are special circumstances for the command you were trying to
run.
as to a "more general way", it seems you want an
asynchronous version of "do shell script". perhaps this
could be implemented as an OSAX, or perhaps some kin do of
"shell script server" could be written in perl. in general
AS is not much of an asynchronous language though.
--
steve harley email@hidden
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