Alec Flett wrote:

> there isn't any mechanism in place to capture stdout/stdin/etc, sorry..



Yes there is. For unix IPC check out protozilla.

http://protozilla.mozdev.org

I think some of protozilla's functionality is/has merged w/ nsIProcess.
Dougt was working on it i believe.


--pete




> 
> You might
> 
> Markus Montkowski wrote:
> 
>> Hi just some short questions.
>> Can I use the nsILocalFile.lauch method to start an commandline tool 
>> and gather the information it prints out to stdout. to parse it later 
>> in javascript? Or do I need to write my own XPCOM class/DLL for that.
>>
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