[launchd-dev] Agent terminating & Fast User Switching

[Dave Zarzycki]

Peter,

For all practical purposes, launchd and AppleEvents are oblivious of  
each other. This may change in a future version of the OS, but for  
now, you'll just need to find a workaround.

Sorry,

davez


On Jun 24, 2008, at 10:55 AM, Peter Alshuth wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have an agent running for each user session that gets launched when
> the user logs in and  will be terminated on a logout.
>
> In order to have the background agent running even if the user quits
> it I use the key to KeepAlive (I check the reason for the quit event
> and return 0 or 1).
>
> Everything works fine when only one user is logged in and out. But
> when I log out from a fast user switching it will be restarted:
>
> He agent fist received the quit event and will terminate by calling
> exit(1) at the very end. Unfortunately, it will be relaunched during
> the user logout and the process will immediately receive  SIGTERM
> signal that I also response to.
>
> <plist version="1.0">
> <dict>
> 	<key>KeepAlive</key>
>         <dict>
>                 <key>SuccessfulExit</key>
>                 <true/>
>         </dict>
>         <key>Label</key>
>         <string>com.mycompany.myAgent</string>
>         <key>OnDemand</key>
>         <false/>
>         <key>ProgramArguments</key>
>         <array>
>                 <string>/usr/local/MyStuff/MyAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/
> MyAgent</string>
>         </array>
>         <key>RunAtLoad</key>
>         <true/>
> </dict>
> </plist>
>
>
> Is there anything I am missing or doing wrong?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Peter
>
>
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