Re: Monitor opened files

FROM : Philip Q
DATE : Sun Apr 29 13:08:55 2007

On 29/04/07, Daniel <daniel.<email_removed>> wrote:
> it is the first time I work with Cocoa and I wanted to know if there
> is a way to launch a second application from the running one (and for
> that I have found something) _and_ additionally being able to montior
> this process/application in such a way to know exactly which file it
> has opened for writing, which one he has created.
>


Creating a child process is pretty simple using NSTask (although, is
there a specific reason you want to use a child process and not a
thread?).

However, getting a list of the open files is not a trivial task if you
want to do it programmatically and there isn't a way to do it without
digging pretty deep. What are you trying to accomplish with this?
Perhaps you don't actually need to get a list of open files.

-Phil