On 13 Aug 2010, at 19:29, Michael Ash wrote: > > I'm not sure why your setpgid doesn't work. You might try a more > UNIX-oriented mailing list, such as darwin-dev. > > There are a couple of other things you could try. > > If your subprocess reads from standard input and exits on EOF, set its > standard input to a pipe. When your process exits, it will close its > end of the pipe. That will cause an EOF to be generated on the other > side, and it will exit. > > If your subprocess regularly writes to standard output, set its > standard output to a pipe. When your process exits, it will close its > end, which causes a SIGPIPE to be generated on the other side the next > time it tries to write to it. SIGPIPE kills the process by default. >
Thanks for the suggestions Mike. I have the tasks piped up already but I am still able to get unruly child processes. I will take a close look at just how the pipes are being utilised. Regards Jonathan_______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
