Apple seems to have pulled the ancient "Moriarity" example which demonstrates 
basic use of NSTask, but my cleanup of it should still work.

<https://github.com/aglee/MoreArty>

--Andy

On Aug 13, 2012, at 6:42 PM, Kyle Sluder <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012, at 02:17 PM, Charlie Dickman wrote:
>> I'm trying to get the output from a vm_stat command using the following
>> code. My app hangs in the [vmRead availableData] call as it should if
>> there is no data available but it never comes back. What am I doing
>> wrong? I have searched through the sample code on apples developer site
>> with no luck.
>> 
>>      NSPipe *vmPipe = [NSPipe pipe];
>>      NSFileHandle *vmRead = [vmPipe fileHandleForReading];
>> 
>>      [vm setLaunchPath: @"/usr/bin/vm_stat"];        //      1 page = 4096 
>> bytes
>>      [vm setStandardOutput: vmPipe];
>>      [vm launch];
>>      NSData *vmData = nil;
>>      int vmDataLength = 0;
>>      do {
>>              vmData = [vmRead availableData];
>>              vmDataLength = [vmData length];
>>      } while (vmDataLength != 0);
> 
> 
> You can't do this. You need to run the runloop.
> 
> --Kyle Sluder
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