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Re: Background app running as root and logout process

Could you have the daemon invoke the BOA as the login user instead of
root? Would that solve the problem?

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Jerry Pendergraft email@hidden
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Robert Fab wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> I have a tool application which runs as a daemon on
> startup. It just links against CoreServices framework
> and installs a notifier for the login event. When it
> detects a login, it launches another application. This
> second one will run as a background-only app (BOA) and
> it links against Carbon framework. Both run as root.
>
> The BOA calls RunApplicationEventLoop to install a
> standard event handler.
>
> My problem is that running in Mac OS 10.3.2, after a
> user logout, the loginwindow process tries to quit my
> BOA and it can't. The Console shows me this alert:
>
> "login window: sendQuitEventToApp (myApp):
> AESendWithMach returned error -1712"
>
> The -1712 error means time out. After that, my BOA is
> killed.
>
> This is understandable because the BOA is running as
> root and loginwindow as the logged user.
>
> I have seen a different behavior on early Jaguar
> versions like 10.2.3, where the BOA replied to the
> quit apple event.
>
> I don't want my BOA get killed because I need to do
> some post-processing after RunApplicationEventLoop
> call. Some ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance ...
>
>
>
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