I would like to run a shell script from my cocoa app when clicking on a button. I can easily use the system() call to do that, but that’s not all i need. I need the app to close as soon as it calls the script, or even before it calls the script. Basically the script should take a few seconds to run so i need the app to close by that time. The reason i need this is because i’m writing a simple application that puts the mac to sleep, but before that it does lots of cleaning up via a shell script and i basically don’t want this app to be open when i brind the system back from sleep.
Would using a fork or something like that do the job or do i need some special magic to do this?
Thank you
You can use popen() instead of system(). The init process should inherit ownership of the script you run once your application exits. You could also fork/exec, but popen will be simpler as its semantics are much closer to that of system().