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April 21, 2016 02:22
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Spawn a sub-process from Swift
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import Glibc | |
var action = posix_spawn_file_actions_t() | |
posix_spawn_file_actions_init(&action); | |
defer { posix_spawn_file_actions_destroy(&action) } | |
posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen(&action, 1, "/tmp/foo-log", (O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC), 0644) | |
posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2(&action, 1, 2) | |
let args = [ | |
"ffmpeg", | |
"-version" | |
] | |
let argv: [UnsafeMutablePointer<CChar>?] = args.map{ $0.withCString(strdup) } | |
defer { for case let arg? in argv { free(arg) } } | |
var pid = pid_t() | |
let rv = posix_spawnp(&pid, argv[0], &action, nil, argv + [nil], nil) | |
guard rv == 0 else { | |
// Should get errno | |
exit(1) | |
} | |
print(pid) | |
var exitCode: Int32 = 0 | |
waitpid(pid, &exitCode, 0) | |
print("Process exited with code \(exitCode)") |
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