[launchd-dev] Working with overrides.plist

[Damien Sorresso]

On Sep 3, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Damien Sorresso wrote:
> 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.


Well, not get rid of it, but we certainly want to change the behavior  
behind it. So we may keep the name of the key, but it would act  
differently.
-- 
Damien Sorresso
BSD Engineering
Apple Inc.

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