[launchd-dev] CMF vs LaunchD

Dave Zarzycki zarzycki at apple.com
Sun Sep 16 10:53:16 PDT 2007


I wish not to respond to the anonymous comment directly.

If you have any questions of your own, I would be happy to answer them.




On Sep 14, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Nehemiah Dacres wrote:

> some one critiqes your talk on launchd in favor of Solarus's CMF,  
> any comments?
> http://www.macgeekery.com/launchd_video#comments
>
> the comment is
>  "The whole presentation was significantly longer and more verbose  
> than it needs to be.
> I found two things interesting: – for all the talk about making  
> things easy to use, setting up launchd jobs without the use of a  
> third-party app like Lingon is harder than it needs to be – many of  
> the shortcomings of launchd are already addressed by Solaris' SMF,  
> e.g. dependency tracking between services, or monitoring all the  
> subprocesses so that if a service is restarted, you don't have left- 
> over orphaned child processes of the old service instance to get in  
> your way"
>
> posted as anon. i agree with your not wanting to allow the  
> user(admin) to fork and forget as your say but what about his other  
> claim. any reply?
> -- 
>
> "lalalalala! it's not broken because I can use it"
>
> http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194281&threshold=1&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=15927703 
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