[OS X TeX] LaTeX on iPad?

[Adam R. Maxwell]

On Mar 6, 2010, at 7:15 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

> It'd be easy to port TeX/pdfTeX/LaTeX/etc to the iPad. (We showed e-TeX and a prototype DVI viewer running on the iPhone last year; see Kaveh's presentation from TUG '09, for example.)

Just out of curiosity, how did you do this?  My understanding is that you can't fork/exec on iPhone, so I didn't think the task approach used by TeXShop and others would work.