Re: Replacing launchd
Re: Replacing launchd
- Subject: Re: Replacing launchd
- From: Dave Zarzycki <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:55:58 -0700
On Sep 30, 2005, at 11:39 AM, Graham J Lee wrote:
Dave Zarzycki wrote:
Today, launchd's operating goal is to find *any* reason to run a
job and run it.
launchd tries hard to stay out of the business of providing
policy mechanisms like this for multiple reasons:
[...]
For all of these reasons, I don't see limits like this being added
to launchd any time soon.
Oh well, I scratched my itch, learned stuff about the way OS X
works in the process, and modified the behaviour of my system to
better suit my usage. So I'm happy :-)
Woot. Glad to hear it. :-)
As Peter Seebach wrote, perhaps a separate policy wrapper -
analogous to tcpd for network services - is the way that should
"really" go. Oh dear, I'm already considering firing up Xcode
again... ;-)
Ya, I think if Apple does anything in this feature realm, it'll be in
something much like tcpd. :-)
davez
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