[launchd-dev] Launchd "System" session type

Quinn "The Eskimo!" eskimo1 at apple.com
Fri Jul 19 00:41:29 PDT 2013


On 18 Jul 2013, at 16:53, Jeremy Reichman <jaharmi at jaharmi.com> wrote:

> The launchd man page for OS X 10.8 describes five session contexts: Aqua, LoginWindow, Background, StandardIO and System. The "System" context appears to be new since OS X 10.7.

The "System" context isn't new, it's just a name for a context that's always existed, namely that context that daemons run in (jobs managed by the 'root' launchd).  The other contexts all apply to agents, that is, to jobs being managed by one of the per-user launchd's.

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