Re: How to get scripting to work without NSApplication
Re: How to get scripting to work without NSApplication
- Subject: Re: How to get scripting to work without NSApplication
- From: Ingvar Nedrebo <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 09:52:18 +0000
On Tuesday, December 11, 2001, at 05:32 , Jason Bobier wrote:
Ah... That's clever. I'll give that a try.
According to the POSIX standard write() is one of the calls that you
can make from a signal handler.
I didn't know that, thanks for that tidbit. Although, I have no idea
how POSIX-compliant Darwin is.
I.
Thanx,
Jason
On Monday, December 10, 2001, at 07:52 AM, Ingvar Nedrebo wrote:
Jason,
I had exactly the same issue as you and was told not to use
any Cocoa calls in a signal handler. My solution was to create
an NSPipe, do a readInBackgroundAndNotify on the read end,
and then from the signal handler just do a write(2) directly
on the write-end file descriptor.
This works well, and I later saw on the Darwin developers
mailing list somebody recommending this writing-to-a-pipe
from a signal handler trick, so I guess it is pretty safe.
I.
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