> 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


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