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Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 1037

Cocoa App: How to find running process

my app Cocoa app for OS X was rejected by Apple. This is what they said:

2.23 The app spawns a process that continues running after the user quits the app, without first obtaining user consent.
The spawned process is /Applications/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyApp -psn_0_10148269.

(I changed the app name)

I have no idea how to find out what this strange process is. What's the best approach to find that out? Maybe using Instruments ? Is there a way to figure out what psn_0_10148269 means?

Some parts of my app use (many) NSTask objects. Could that process be a not terminated NSTask object?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 527

Answers (1)

Kurt Revis
Kurt Revis

Reputation: 27984

That is a pretty weird message. The process is just your app itself. OS X passes in the -psn argument when it launches your app -- it's an implementation detail, that normally you never see.

It could definitely be something relating to an NSTask. Possibly you are running a task but never reaping its exit status; then your app becomes a zombie process. Double-check your NSTask usage, and make sure you aren't leaking any of them.

Also, it never hurts to ask the Apple reviewer for a clarification.

Upvotes: 2

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