[launchd-dev] WatchPaths Indicator of triggering path?

[Benjamin Burke]

On Aug 13, 2008, at 3:37 AM, Kevin Van Vechten wrote:
> On Aug 12, 2008, at 11:36 PM, Benjamin Burke wrote:
>> When an agent is run as the result of a watched path being modified,
>> does launchd provide the agent with the path that triggered it? For
>> example, imagine that I have the following plist which identifies 3
>> watchpaths [...]
>
> No, I don't think the path that triggered the launch is communicated  
> to the process.  Seems like a reasonable enhancement request, but  
> the files may be modified after the process is launched and it's the  
> agent's responsibility to watch for that.


Thanks. I finally got around to submitting this as an enhancement  
request (radar #6156218). I tried to come up with a patch myself, but  
I keep crashing in job_start_child... I'm afraid that I'm a bit out of  
my depth at the moment.