On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:17 PM, Kevin Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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