On Wed, Feb 20, 2013, at 08:22 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
> You can accomplish this without writing to the file system, but it
> involves foregoing NSTask. Fork, close stdin in the child process, open
> a pipe (so that the child gets the read end in fd 0), then exec the tool
> with "/dev/stdin" as the filename argument.

Actually, the appropriate order of operations here is pipe, fork,
close(stdin), dup(filedes[0]), exec.

--Kyle Sluder
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