fork within Cocoa application

Question

My problem is not the best scenario for fork(). However, this is the best func I can get.

I am working on a Firefox plugin on Mac OSX. To make it robust, I need to c

Answer 1

I'm writing the FreeWRL plugin for Firefox (Linux at the moment, Mac & Windows soon).

http://freewrl.sourceforge.net/

It's based on fork+exec to launch FreeWRL and swallow its window into Firefox.

You'll have to use a pipe to correctly handle the possible failure of fork+exec or the failure of your child process :

How to handle execvp(...) errors after fork()?

Cheers, C