All,

1. In OS X 10.11;

I was wondering if there was a way to gracefully refresh com.apple.ctkpcscd (child process of securityd, seems to be a framework launched by /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ctkd.plist) to detect new drivers in /usr/local/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers to avoid needing a restart.

A launchctl unload/load doesn’t do the trick, and (i know this is dumb, but i was exploring the behavior) a killall securityd doesn’t either.

2. Is there an equivalent mechanism in OS X 10.7->10.10?

If there isn’t a public way to do this, we’ll deal with the restart happily.

Thanks!

John Lamb (Contractor)

SRA International

National Cancer Institute

Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology

9609 Medical Center Drive

Rockville, MD 20850

lambje2@mail.nih.gov