Unable to start process using Runtime - Solved

[Greg Lewis]

On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 09:34:44AM -0400, Michael Franz wrote:
> Which patch are you referring to?  I supplied two patches, one that is like
> from the mailing list, and another that is completely different.  They both
> solve the same problem, but the second removes a bunch of platform dependent
> code.

The one that changes 3 to FAIL_FILENO.

> I found out about /dev/fd searching for darwin file descriptors and
> eventually found this posting:
> http://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-development/2002/Jan/msg00150.html

I'll check out your second patch in more detail as soon as I have a chance.
It certainly sounds promising.

> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Greg Lewis <glewis at eyesbeyond.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 04:55:36PM -0400, Michael Franz wrote:
> > > Martin,
> > >
> > > Here are the changes that work for OS X.
> >
> > FWIW, this is the patch I have locally to make it work.  This is also
> > one of the three patches that we couldn't port over from the JRL port
> > since we didn't have an SCA from the contributor.  I haven't approached
> > Michiel Boland (who originally came up with it) about doing so, but he
> > may be willing to submit an SCA.  Otherwise we'll have to wait until
> > someone does this in a clean room manner (it looks like you obtained
> > it from the mail archives?).
> >
> >

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