> On Aug 31, 2015, at 20:32, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > > (I know this has come up here before, but I can’t get the right combination > of search terms to find an answer…) > > I’m writing a little GUI wrapper app around a command-line-based server. It > uses NSTask to launch the server. I want to ensure that when the app exits, > the server process exits too. I can tell the NSTask to terminate in my app > delegate's -applicationWillTerminate: method, but that doesn’t handle cases > where the app crashes or is force-quit. > > IIRC there is a way to tell the kernel to terminate the child process when > its parent process exits. But what is it, exactly?
There was a 2010 cocoa-dev thread about this: http://www.lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/2010/Aug/msg00512.html Same thread, single page with all posts: http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/291918-how-to-assure-nstask-termination-when-parent-dies.html _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) 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 [email protected]
