Re: How to exit a thread help...
Re: How to exit a thread help...
- Subject: Re: How to exit a thread help...
- From: Tom Jones <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:38:45 -0700 (PDT)
>> I'm writing a Foundation tool and I need to run a NSTask in a
>> separate thread.
> An NSTask is a different thing from a thread. Since NSTask provides
> asynchronous notification of its death (and NSFileHandle provides
> asynchronous methods for dealing with I/O), there should be no need to
> use a separate thread to manage a task.
Yes, I'm running the NSTask in a separate thread so that the main run loop will not be effected.I just want the thread to exit once the NSTask is completed.
>> I have it working but when the task completes the thread is still
>> running. I tried issuing a [NSThread exit] but that did nothing.
> By what evidence do you conclude the thread is still running, and
> which thread are you talking about?
If I look at Activity Monitor I can see the number of threads I have, and when the NSTask thread is completed it's still present.
>> What am I missing?
> I suspect it's because you aren't allowing any run loops to run. See
> the thread beginning here: http://lists.apple.com/archives/Cocoa-dev/2008/Oct/msg01016.html
Thanks,
tom
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