[launchd-dev] About the ServiceIPC key

Damien Sorresso dsorresso at apple.com
Tue Jun 30 08:56:53 PDT 2009


On Jun 30, 2009, at 4:42 AM, Thomas Clement wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to figure out when the ServiceIPC key should be used.
> This key is not documented but it is used in the various sample codes.
>
> My understanding is that this key is required on 10.4 to check-in  
> with launchd but its use is deprecated on 10.5 and later.
> Am I right?


Correct. On Leopard and later, you can treat the ServiceIPC key as  
being inferred through the presence of a Sockets or MachServices  
dictionary. There's no need to explicitly specify it.
-- 
Damien Sorresso
BSD Engineering
Apple Inc.

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