On Oct 21, 2013, at 20:02, Maxthon Chan <xcvi...@me.com> wrote: > No, this pipe/fork/dup2/exec is used in App Store apps -
No. I am sorry, but you are wrong. > iSSH is an example as it used its separate PuTTY executable. iSSH does not use a separate executable. It is not possible to do so from a 3rd party iOS app. > Maybe straight fork() is not available but is there some replacement like > posix_spawn()? iOS itself need some sort of mechanism to fork/exec or there > will be no apps. Any attempt to create a new process (whether by fork or posix_spawn or whatever) will fail if called from a 3rd party iOS app. > > On Oct 22, 2013, at 10:56, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > >> >> On Oct 21, 2013, at 7:02 PM, ChanMaxthon <xcvi...@me.com> wrote: >> >>> 2) You can still use classic UNIX function calls to pipe/fork/dup2/exec >> >> I think this is another of those “…ok, only if you jailbreak your device or >> maybe if you’re building an enterprise-only app” things, right? You should >> really make that clear, because I bet the vast majority of people here are >> writing for the App Store. -- Clark Smith Cox III clarkc...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
