On Oct 26, 2010, at 2:51 PM, Dave MacLachlan wrote:

On Oct 26, 2010, at 5:49 AM, eveningnick eveningnick wrote:

I am wondering, if from the launchctl sources (i've heard they are
available) i could extract the code to load/start/unload/list the
agents, instead of calling the "launchctl" terminal application with
fork/exec and waiting in the pipe for their result (and parsing that
result). What i mean is - of course, launchctl and launchd can have
changed with time, and my application will become invalid, but so can
the launchctl's console output, that i'm parsing. And, for example,
when i expect the text "12345 1 com.mycompany.myagent" to be returned
with "launchctl list | grep", i may get something different and think
"Oh well, my agent is not running yet, let's start it again" (this is
just an example). Why is this solution considered to be better than
calling API's directly?

Perhaps these will be of use?

http://code.google.com/p/google-toolbox-for-mac/source/browse/trunk/Foundation/GTMServiceManagement.c
http://code.google.com/p/google-toolbox-for-mac/source/browse/trunk/Foundation/GTMServiceManagement.h

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