[launchd-dev] Working with overrides.plist

Damien Sorresso dsorresso at apple.com
Thu Sep 3 11:02:19 PDT 2009


On Sep 3, 2009, at 10:37 AM, Dean Shavit wrote:
> I am aware of that. But there's differences in behavior. In Leopard,  
> specifying any Session Type listed in the LaunchAgent using "sudo"  
> worked to write the Disable key in the plist targeted. In Snow  
> Leopard, this behavior does not hold true for the overrides.plist

I'd argue that the Leopard behavior was improper. Asking to modify a  
job in a  session where it cannot exist should be a no-op.

In any case, we really hope to clean up the mess of sessions post-Snow  
Leopard. We also just want to get rid of the Disabled key entirely.
-- 
Damien Sorresso
BSD Engineering
Apple Inc.

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