Re: [launchd-dev] ExitTimeOut seems to be ignored in simple demo

On 2010 Aug 13, at 18:34, Michael Ledford wrote:

I asked the same question earlier this year. You can read the response that is pretty clear on what is happening here... http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/launchd-dev/2010-January/000732.html

In summary ExitTimeOut is referring to the time between when a SIGTERM is issued by launchd, e.g. someone asked for a launchd process to stop via launchctl, and when the SIGKILL is issued.

Thank you, Michael. Lord, have mercy. So I have just filed with Apple Bug Reporter Problem ID 8310103: "Documentation for Darwin launchd.plist(5) ExitTimeOut…".