[launchd-dev] Global Login Items

[Nathan Duran]

On Feb 21, 2008, at 7:29 AM, Jeremy Reichman wrote:

> C) how is this support different in 10.5 vs. the editing of
> /Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist, which has been possible in  
> the past?

It's different because you're not supposed to touch prefs files that  
don't belong to you. Going through a higher level API isolates your  
code from the format of the property list so  changes to that format  
will not break your code, nor will your code break the OS.