[launchd-dev] Launchd API
Quinn
eskimo1 at apple.com
Mon Feb 2 01:32:29 PST 2009
At 22:03 +0100 28/1/09, Xavier Guérin wrote:
>Reading launchctl.c I've already been able to do
>some of the polling code of the agent (even
>though some data structure are still a complete
>mystery as I speak), but the load/unload part
>seems really intricate, and I'm afraid to be
>obliged to use execve + launchctl to make it
>work.
Right now the <launch.h> API is only rated for
daemons checking in with launchd (ala SampleD).
It is not really designed for job management.
Rather, we recommend that folks do their job
management by fork/exec of launchctl.
S+E
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Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware
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