On Jan 18, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Ken Thomases wrote: >> Note that you can't do this with Cocoa/Objective-C (at least Apple says you >> shouldn't…) > > You can fork() and exec() just fine. What you can't do is fork(), _not_ call > exec(), and then do anything other than call POSIX async-cancel-safe APIs. > That includes using high-level frameworks like Cocoa, Core Foundation, or the > like.
I think it's recommended that you not launch a GUI app via fork/exec. Calling fork/exec *from* GUI apps is fine all day long. -- 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
