[launchd-dev] How to ensure that my job is launched through launchd and not directly?

[Per Olofsson]

16 apr 2015 kl. 13:25 skrev Raunak Poddar <raunak.poddar at gmail.com>:
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> I have a program and I want to ensure that it has been launched only by launchd (as a daemon) & it should terminate if the user launches it directly (double-click on Finder, terminal). Is there a nifty way of accomplishing this?

A quick and dirty check would be to use getppid() and ensure that it's launchd. A better way is probably to check in with launchd (see SampleD.c), but I'm not actually sure what happens if you run that manually.

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Per Olofsson, IT-service, University of Gothenburg