Challenge: who can background this shell command?

[David Bovill]

OK - will try. My first attempt launched the process, but the server did
not work and the openproccessids = 0

But will try to do this properly and report back - thanks Mark :)

On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 16:27, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> On 2019-08-01 17:12, David Bovill via use-livecode wrote:
> > OK - so I have it working by writing to a temporary file.
> >
> > Trying to redirect the output to stdout - so that shell() return the
> > information of the background process - but this freezes:
>
> Okay so given you want to read/write to the process you launched it
> seems...
>
> What's wrong with open process? The *only* difference between open
> process
> on macOS compared to Linux (and Windows) is that if you try and open
> process
> an app-bundle (i.e. something ending with '.app') it will do the same as
> launch (as .app bundles aren't executables).
>
> The installer uses open (elevated) process to communicate with an
> instance
> of itself with elevated permissions. You can see the code for that here:
>
> <
> https://github.com/livecode/livecode/blob/develop/builder/installer_utilities.livecodescript
> >
>
> The key routines are installerRun and installerMonitor (the latter is
> used
> to poll every 20 milliseconds to check if the child process has anything
> to
> say).
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
> Mark.
>
> --
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