[launchd-dev] About the ExitTimeOut key in a daemon's configuration plist

[Damien Sorresso]

Axel,

I do not believe there have been any fixes in that area. The teardown path is pretty straightforward, and the code path is such that the SIGKILL timer won't ever be armed without first calling kill(2) with SIGTERM.
-damien

> On 17 Apr, 2016, at 09:23, Axel Luttgens <axel.luttgens at skynet.be> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Le 8 avr. 2016 à 17:38, Damien Sorresso a écrit :
>> 
>> Axel,
>> 
>> Your understanding is correct. My guess is that your daemon is, for whatever reason, not processing the SIGTERM launchd sends at shutdown. You might want to give you signal handling code a second look. If you're not already I'd recommend using dispatch(3) to handle the signal. 
>> 
>> -damien 
>> 
>>> On Mar 12, 2016, at 02:22, Axel Luttgens wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> From launchd.plist(5):
>>> 
>>> […]
>>> 
>>> This is with Mac OS X 10.11.3.
>>> 
>>> Am I misunderstanding the role of that ExitTimeOut key?
> 
> Hello Damien,
> 
> Thank you for your kind follow-up.
> 
> I thus tried again today with the same daemon/plist, and… it works as expected.
> 
> The only difference is that I installed Mac OS X 10.11.4 on March 16th.
> 
> Could it be that some launchd bug has been corrected with 10.11.4?
> 
> Axel
> 
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