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Re: exec(uting) Safari - How (newbie)
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Re: exec(uting) Safari - How (newbie)


  • Subject: Re: exec(uting) Safari - How (newbie)
  • From: "Clark Cox" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 08:38:40 -0700

On 7/2/08, Jason Coco <email@hidden> wrote:
> Yeah, to me it is... although I still agree that it's not an ideal
> solution for a Cocoa application...
>
> By the way, assuming you change char *args[] = { "-a", "Safari",
> NULL }; to char *args[] = { "/usr/bin/open", "-a", "Safari", NULL };
> the exec* example actually works while the LaunchServices example
> fails with kLSApplicationNotFoundError.
>
> After playing around with it a little, I discovered that you need to
> actually call it CFSTR("Safari.app") in this case to get it to work
> correctly... so like anything else in life, since I'm much more
> familiar with the POSIX/BSD API (and since pretty much every operating
> system I've ever worked with treats exec* similar) it's a lot easier
> *for me* than using LaunchServices.

Easy or not, it's still wrong. Launching safari via exec will not, for
example, re-use an already/running instance.

Just don't use exec to launch GUI applications--period.






> On Jul 2, 2008, at 03:30 , Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
>
>> "a lot easier than Launch Services" ?
>>
>> extern char **environ;
>> char *args[] = { "-a", "Safari", NULL};
>> execve("/usr/bin/open", args, environ);
>>
>> versus:
>>
>> FSRef app;
>> if (noErr == LSFindApplicationForInfo(kLSUnknownCreator, NULL,
>> CFSTR("Safari"), &app, NULL))
>> 	LSOpenFSRef(&app, NULL);
>>
>>
>>
>> Le 2 juil. 08 à 06:45, Jason Coco a écrit :
>>
>>> What env pollution? I agree that exec* isn't really the way to go,
>>> but that's what the OP was using... I just suggested that /usr/bin/
>>> open is a better option than hard-coding the path to some arbitrary
>>> application. It's also a lot easier to use than the LaunchServices
>>> API... although if I were gonna use it, I'd definitely do so from
>>> an NSTask object as others have already suggested.
>>>
>>> On Jul 1, 2008, at 23:44 , Kyle Sluder wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Kevin Elliott <email@hidden>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Of course, they're both bad choices.  As several people have
>>>>> pointed out,
>>>>> NSWorkspace launchApplication or openURL depending on the
>>>>> requirements.  If
>>>>> it's not possible to use NSWorkspace (i.e. because you can't link
>>>>> against
>>>>> AppKit) consider NSTask or using LaunchServices.  But unless you
>>>>> have a
>>>>> SPECIFIC, low level requirement exec is the wrong API.
>>>>
>>>> I was even more concerned about the env pollution necessary for exec
>>>> to work as described ("not needing to know where Safari lives").
>>>> exec
>>>> is just a bad idea all around for anything outside of the BSD
>>>> environment.
>>>>
>>>> --Kyle Sluder
>>>
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