[launchd-dev] Is there anything that can prevent launchd from working

Quinn eskimo1 at apple.com
Mon Jun 1 14:14:43 PDT 2009


At 11:04 -1000 1/6/09, Dave Keck wrote:
>It's probably overkill, but as a last resort you might try inducing a
>panic. To do so, I'd create a simple kext and have it do something
>"bad." Then, when you're ready to panic, simply do a kextload.

Just FYI, on 10.5 and later you can trigger a panic via DTrace.

<http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2004/tn2118.html#DTRACEPANICTRIGGER>

S+E
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Quinn "The Eskimo!"                    <http://www.apple.com/developer/>
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