Re: Several Questions
Re: Several Questions
- Subject: Re: Several Questions
- From: Ammar Ibrahim <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 14:19:47 +0300
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Chris Hanson <email@hidden> wrote:
> On May 30, 2009, at 11:18 PM, Ammar Ibrahim wrote:
>
>> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Chris Hanson <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> The best way to ensure your daemon or agent is always running is to have
>>> it
>>> run via launchd.
>>>
>>> Start by reading the launchd man page and the "Daemons and Agents" tech
>>> note; these will give you an overview of how Mac OS X used launchd to
>>> manage
>>> these types of on-demand and always-on services.
>>>
>>
>> But my app is a "normal" Cocoa App, it's not a daemon or an agent.
>>
>
> It's still essentially an agent, just one that runs in the foreground, not
> the background.
>
> You can use launchd to keep your app alive. That way you, don't have to
> worry about adding code to your application to do it, you just have to
> ensure the launchd property list is in the right place.
>
> That will also make development of your application easier, because your
> application can run normally; you won't have to put a bunch of extra code
> into it to disable its keep-alive behavior during development.
>
Great, so I understand from what you're saying that I can launch a GUI app
using launchd? I will look into it. Also, what if the application stops
responding? Is that something that launchd can detect?
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