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

[Axel Luttgens]

> Le 3 mars 2016 à 14:41, Thomas Clement a écrit :
> 
> 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.

Hello Thomas,

Yes, I had similar "intuitions", until I noticed that the "_dirty" key seems to persist across reboots.

Axel