Thanks Ernie -- I'm going to go through the documentation for the Service Management framework and see what I can come up with. I was hoping I wouldn't need to maintain two separate code bases for MacRuby and MRI but if i can launch processes without reverting to a hack it's always a good thing.
Thanks, Rob On 17 Feb 2010, at 15:45, Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D. wrote: > The recommendation is to use launchd to spawn processes via Service > Management: > > http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/General/Reference/ServiceManagementFwRef/ServiceManagement_h/index.html > > But I don't think anybody has wrapped it yet... > > -- Ernie P. > > On Feb 17, 2010, at 5:42 AM, robert gleeson wrote: > >> Hi -- >> >> I'm aware fork() is not implemented in MacRuby yet, and it may never be from >> what I read but I'd just like to introduce a use case i've come across >> recently that might have you reconsider? >> >> I am writing ruby bindings for the features exposed in the "sandbox" header, >> and you really need to fork a process if you don't want your parent process >> to inherit the restrictions the sandbox imposes .. >> >> I came across the problem with CoreFoundation not allowing you to fork() >> without immediately executing exec() , and I presume this is one of the >> reasons fork() in MacRuby might not be implemented but is there any >> workaround to see fork() being implemented? >> >> Just thought I'd add that to the table. >> >> Thanks, >> Rob >> _______________________________________________ >> MacRuby-devel mailing list >> MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org >> http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel > > _______________________________________________ > MacRuby-devel mailing list > MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel _______________________________________________ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacRuby-devel@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macruby-devel
