[launchd-dev] Install and load a launch daemon without a reboot

[Quinn "The Eskimo!"]

On 27 Jan 2011, at 20:47, Jeremy Reichman wrote:

> Quinn, did you mean the chroot idea in the "bootstrap" thread?

Yes.

> If so, I'll
> either need a little more time to digest it, or just request a reboot with
> the installer. It sounds as if running the above Python in the context of
> an Installer postflight script would result in a no-op because of the RUID.

If you have an EUID of 0 then the chroot trick lets your sync your RUID to that.  Honestly, I'm /so/ not an expert in installers, either Apple's on third party, that your best bet is to test this for yourself.

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