Re: How to terminate an NSTask whenever my app terminates?
Re: How to terminate an NSTask whenever my app terminates?
- Subject: Re: How to terminate an NSTask whenever my app terminates?
- From: Bavarious <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 03:44:01 -0300
> On Aug 31, 2015, at 20:32, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> (I know this has come up here before, but I can’t get the right combination of search terms to find an answer…)
>
> I’m writing a little GUI wrapper app around a command-line-based server. It uses NSTask to launch the server. I want to ensure that when the app exits, the server process exits too. I can tell the NSTask to terminate in my app delegate's -applicationWillTerminate: method, but that doesn’t handle cases where the app crashes or is force-quit.
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> IIRC there is a way to tell the kernel to terminate the child process when its parent process exits. But what is it, exactly?
There was a 2010 cocoa-dev thread about this:
http://www.lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/2010/Aug/msg00512.html
Same thread, single page with all posts:
http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/291918-how-to-assure-nstask-termination-when-parent-dies.html
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