Re: NSTask arguments
Re: NSTask arguments
- Subject: Re: NSTask arguments
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:33:40 -0800
Oh crap, NOW I get it. :P You don't have to do the fork dance at all.
Just call -setStandardInput: and pass /dev/stdin as the filename
argument. Let NSTask take care of the rest.
--Kyle Sluder
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013, at 08:30 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:
>
> On Feb 20, 2013, at 8:22 PM, Kyle Sluder <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> > You can accomplish this without writing to the file system, but it
> > involves foregoing NSTask. Fork, close stdin in the child process, open
> > a pipe (so that the child gets the read end in fd 0), then exec the tool
> > with "/dev/stdin" as the filename argument.
>
> D’ohh! I’d forgotten about /dev/stdin. But why does this require
> abandoning NSTask? Its API supports redirecting input/output. Just call
> -[NSTask setStandardInput:].
>
> —JEns
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