On Mar 30, 2010, at 4:01 PM, McLaughlin, Michael P. wrote: > I have a Cocoa app (Leopard) which launches several Foundation Tool subtasks > (since threads are not sufficient in this case). Currently, I terminate > these subtasks via the app-delegate method > > -(NSApplicationTerminateReply)applicationShouldTerminate:(NSApplication > *)sender > > This works provided one Quits the main app using the Quit menu item. > However, if I force-quit or if I abort using the Stop icon in Xcode, then > the main app terminates without terminating the subtasks. > > Is there a more reliable hook (e.g., delegate method) that would always get > called even on force-quit or Stop from Xcode so that these subtasks would > always get terminated? [Otherwise, I have to terminate them from Activity > Monitor.]
Your subtasks can use kqueue's EVFILT_PROC filter with the NOTE_EXIT fflag to be alerted when the parent process exits. If your subtasks are spinning their NSRunLoops, you can integrate kqueue via CFFileDescriptor. Cheers, M_______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
