[launchd-dev] Daemon & Network Availability?

Ned Hogan nedly at mac.com
Mon Nov 10 09:09:29 PST 2008


Hi Karl,

I have a similar implementation, I think this is what you want, as one  
who has been socket programming on Unix for 25 years I need to get my  
head around not doing my own fd plumbing, rather trusting launchd to  
do it for me. It also means you need to spend some time re-factoring  
your code.

inetdCompatibility <dictionary>
      The presence of this key specifies that the daemon expects to be  
run as if
      it were launched from inetd.

            Wait <boolean>
            This flag corresponds to the "wait" or "nowait" option of  
inetd. If
            true, then the listening socket is passed via the standard
            in/out/error file descriptors. If false, then accept(2) is  
called on
            behalf of the job, and the result is passed via the standard
            in/out/error descriptors.

On Nov 10, 2008, at 8:09 AM, Karl Moskowski wrote:

> Hello, all!
>
> I'm working on a project comprised of a launchd daemon and a GUI  
> client app. I used the BetterAuthorizationSample project as a  
> template for installing and starting up the daemon the first time.  
> In the daemon's start-up code, it connects to a remote server. It  
> all works fine on installation. However, when I reboot my computer,  
> the daemon starts up, but the network isn't available yet, and the  
> connection fails.
>
> I tried using SystemConfiguration notifications to receive changes  
> to the network state, but that doesn't work - the computer has an IP  
> address at that point, but the remote server is still not reachable.  
> I also tried setting the KeepAlive option in the daemon's plist to  
> NetworkState = true. However, that doesn't seem to work either - it  
> just starts as KeepAlive = true.
>
> Is there some other way to indicate a dependency on the network? Do  
> I need a delay at start up to wait for a connection? For better or  
> worse, I used a named DO connection to handle IAC between the daemon  
> & GUI. Could this be part of the problem (the caveats in TN2083 lead  
> me to believe it's just inadvisable but not wrong outright)? Also,  
> is launchd checkin, etc., required? I did have it in main(), but it  
> kept failing, even though I had ServiceIPC = true. In case it helps,  
> the current daemon plist is below.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ----
> Karl Moskowski <kolpanic at voodooergonomics.com>
> Voodoo Ergonomics Inc. <http://voodooergonomics.com/>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd 
> ">
> <plist version="1.0">
> <dict>
> 	<key>KeepAlive</key>
> 	<dict>
> 		<key>NetworkState</key>
> 		<true/>
> 	</dict>
> 	<key>Label</key>
> 	<string>com.company.myd</string>
> 	<key>ProgramArguments</key>
> 	<array>
> 		<string>/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.company.myd</string>
> 	</array>
> </dict>
> </plist>
>
>
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