[launchd-dev] Confused about sockets - please help!

[Quinn]

At 20:19 +0000 2/3/10, dreamcat four wrote:
>Are all of these different possible structures interchangeable?

It depends on your perspective.  From the perspective of launchd, it 
doesn't care which format you use.  From the perspective of a launchd 
daemon developer, each format offers unique advantages.

o If the sockets perform distinct functions, the dictionary of 
dictionaries approach lets the launchd daemon easily determine which 
socket is which.

o If the sockets perform similar functions, Tthe dictionary of array 
of dictionaries approach makes that obvious.

If you're writing a tool to manipulate launchd plists, I'd recommend 
that you work hard to preserve this distinction.  A launchd daemon 
that expects its checkin results to be in one one format is probably 
going to fail if they are in the other.

S+E
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