Thanks, It's okay, I'll just create another lgpl library subclassing NSTask and link to it. Banlu
----- Original message ----- > > On 7 Mar 2011, at 16:04, Banlu Kemiyatorn wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Richard Frith-Macdonald > > <rich...@tiptree.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > Depending on what you are trying to do, you might redirect other > > > decriptors to one of those, or you might try using named pipes to > > > communicate between processes. > > > > I want to write to any predefined descriptor on target process and > > think it would be nice if some extension GNUstep APIs allows this. > > Could it fork and dup the child pipes to predefined descriptor number? > > What would be a proper extension APIs for this? > > I don't like to be negative about things when people want to contribute > code but the GNUstep policy is strongly to be Apple compatible ... > > For the core libraries themselves, that means we are actively (if > slowly) trying to remove old extension code. In gnustep-base that > generally means moving extensions out of base itsself and into the base > additions library. So the obvious thing to do would be to implement any > extension as something in the base additions library ... but the point > of that library is to be built under OSX with the Apple > compiler/runtime/Foundation, and enable code running on OSX to make use > of our additions. That means that code in the base additions library > needs to work both when built with gnustep-base on *any* platform, and > when built with Apple Foundation. So an extension to NSTask there would > also need to function as an extension to Apple's NSTask class ... which > may be really difficult. > > In practice, this might mean moving almost the whole NSTask > implementation into the additions library so that with OSX Foundation, > you would actually replace Apple's implementation of NSTask with the > GNUstep one. This would be a good thing (we already have an NSTask > extension we need to get out of the base library), but may be more work > than you want to get involved in. > >
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