[launchd-dev] Privilege separation and crash resistance

Thomas Clement thomascl at free.fr
Wed Oct 7 04:40:26 PDT 2009


On Oct 7, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Quinn wrote:

> The typical solution to this problem is to have a lightweight agent  
> that's always running that connects up to the daemon and launches  
> any requested heavyweight agents in response to requests from the  
> daemon. This is exactly the <x-man-page://8/UserEventAgent> is all  
> about.

Yes, I agree that this architecture seems the more appropriate.

Thanks,
Thomas


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