On Sep 13, 2011, at 1:14 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > That’s true in the general case on OS X, but my understanding is that as long > as you stick to POSIX APIs you can do actual work in the forked process.
No, you have to stick to async-signal safe POSIX APIs, which are a very very small subset of POSIX. Basically, about all you can do is close/dup file descriptors in order to set up which files the new process will be able to access after exec'ing. -- Scott Ribe scott_r...@elevated-dev.com http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice _______________________________________________ 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
