MacOS X VM

Ned Konz ned at squeakland.org
Wed Nov 3 06:40:49 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 02 November 2004 9:14 pm, David Farber wrote:
> Next question: How does the notion of an "app" in OS X map to the
> traditional idea of a process in unix.  Specifically, does an app still
> have stdin/stdout/stderr?  When I use 'open' on the command line, it
> appears to always fork the program call--is that baked in?
>
> I'd like to get my hands on stdin/stdout/stderr of the main squeak process.
>  I've got Ian's OS X binaries and OSProcess seems to work (at least, the
> CommandShell works) although not all of tests pass.  But 'OSProcess
> helloWorld' doesn't print anything to the console that started squeak.
>
> Pointers? Ideas?

Another possibility is to use the Unix VM for the Mac, and just start it from 
a shell script.

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Ned Konz
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