[squeak-dev] PipeableOSProcess forkAndExec arguements

Arushi Aggarwal arushi987 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 26 05:28:58 UTC 2010


Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I managed to get it to work with arguments, that
dont have spaces in the path.

Works for now.

Arushi

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 7:35 AM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 12:40:59PM -0500, Arushi Aggarwal wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to startup a squeak image from another squeak image. I
>> have the following command.
>>
>> p := PipeableOSProcess  forkAndExec:'Squeak.exe'
>>                        arguments: #('Squeak3.10.2-7179-basic.image')
>>                        environment: nil
>>                        descriptors: nil
>>                        workingDir: 'C:\Documents and Settings\Arushi
>> Aggarwal\Desktop\CS598\win32-Squeak3.10.2-7179\Squeak3.10.2-7179\'
>>                        errorPipelineStream:(InternalPipe
>> nonBlockingPipe nextPutAll: 'this is the error stream '; yourself).
>>
>> It does not seem to recognize the argument that is being passed, and
>> prompts for the user to choose the image. Both Squeak.exe and the
>> image lie in the path that has been specified as the workingDir.
>>
>> Is there anything else I can do to make it recognize the argument?
>
> Hi Arushi,
>
> OSProcess support for Windows is not as complete as it should be,
> so some of the things that work on Linux do not work properly on
> Windows. It looks like you have successfully built an OSProcessPlugin
> for your Windows system (well done!). I do not have a Windows system
> with me today and I have not looked at this in a while, but I am
> afraid that passing command line arguments may be one of the things
> that is not complete on Windows.
>
> Another thing that could be an issue is that the OS pipe support
> on Windows does not work, so on Windows you cannot read and write
> the input and output streams to the external Squeak process that
> you are starting. I don't know it that is a concern for you or not.
>
> Dave
>
>
>



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