[launchd-dev] LaunchAgent best practice for turning "off" sockets

[Quinn "The Eskimo!"]

On 30 Mar 2016, at 22:26, Mitchell Laurren-Ring <lists at rynosoft.com> wrote:

> How about ignoring the socket when I’m adding my sockets to the kevent queue?

That'll certainly work.  The potential gotcha is that a pending connection to this socket is considered 'demand' by launchd, and thus will keep your daemon running.  You might be better off accepting, and then immediately closing, these connections.  Under normal circumstances that's not a great option, but if you control the client you can code it to handle that pattern.

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