Re: StartupItems
Re: StartupItems
- Subject: Re: StartupItems
- From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 09:54:38 -1000
On Jun 3, 2006, at 7:33 AM, Peter Seebach wrote:
What I want launchd to do is "handle the dependencies needed to
determine
when a daemon can be safely launched".
I think I got that part already, but we need to get more specific.
HOW should it handle the dependencies (in ways not already provided
for)? What ARE those dependencies? That's the kind of detail I'm
asking for. The above sentence qualifies more as a mission statement
than a specific set of goals, and we've already been all over the
mission statement side of things in this thread.
So, it'd be REALLY NICE if launchd provided at least a few basic
hooks so
that the easy cases would Just Work.
If you'd enumerate some of these hooks and "easy cases", that would
be helpful.
Cool. Clean it up, give it a man page, and include it in the
system, and
we should be all done.
You're certainly jumping rather eagerly on my solution without
knowing what it actually does. That's either a testament to your
enthusiasm or a worrying sign that you don't know what you actually
want. :-)
That's what I want, at least; I want APPLE to provide the code to
handle
the fairly basic functionality of "launch this program only when
the system
can support it", so I don't have to maintain thirty-leven copies of
the
code which checks for and waits on services.
Apple HAS provided this already. That's what IPC-based launching is
all about - when something is actually needed, use the interlock that
IPC gives you to launch it and allow it to satisfy the request.
You're saying that's not enough, so please provide details as to what
you'd like to see (and when I say "details" I mean "something that
someone could actually start implementing", not "I want a system that
Does The Right Thing, dammit!").
- Jordan
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