[launchd-dev] What does the "_dirty" key mean?

[Thomas Clement]

Hey,

Most likely an internal key to indicate that the list of disabled services has been modified and needs to be written to disk for persistent storage (see /var/db/com.apple.xpc.launchd/). It will go away once this is done (you can reboot to force that). I don't see any point of having this printed here, I guess the internal representation is just printed as it is.

Regards,
Thomas

> On 03 Mar 2016, at 14:11, Axel Luttgens <axel.luttgens at skynet.be> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> When running:
> 
> 	sudo launchctl print-disabled system
> 
> on 10.11.3, I get:
> 
> 	disabled services = {
> 		"_dirty" => true
> 		[…]
> 	}
> 
> What does that "_dirty" key mean?
> 
> I’m asking, because I’m wondering if I did something wrong…
> 
> TIA,
> Axel
> 
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