[MacRuby-devel] fork() and MacRuby

[Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D.]

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
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