[launchd-dev] What does launchd do, if the application in "Program" section was not found?

[Jerry Krinock]

On 2010 Oct 27, at 02:25, eveningnick eveningnick wrote:

> If in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.myprogram.plist i define "RunAtLoad:
> TRUE", but specify non existing application as "Program" parameter,
> what scenario does launchd follow?

Try it.  It will probably keep looking for your binary and write a message to your console log every 10 seconds.  As you can find in the list archives, we've discussed this before, but the opinion of the developers seems to be that this is the optimal behavior.  "Provide an uninstaller."

> what impact does it have on the speed of the system boot?

Probably adds 2 milliseconds or so.