Lists

Terms and Conditions
Lists hosted on this site
Email the Postmaster
Tips for posting to public mailing lists

launchd and fork/exec?

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

launchd and fork/exec?

Subject: launchd and fork/exec?
From: Brian Bergstrand <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 14:24:49 -0500

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

I have a tool that loads a non-IOKit kext via executing kextload. For various reasons, using kextload directly from the launchd plist won't work (the tool does some pre and post processing).

Reading the launchd Getting Started doc I see:

"The only things that are strictly prohibited, however, are fork()/ exit() combinations (including indirect methods, such as the daemon (3) library call)."

I'm not forking a child of the tool, but of course my tool fork/ exec's kextload (and kextunload and possibly kextstat). When this happens, launchd starts spewing errors in system.log and re-spawning my tool.

Is there anything I can do to work around this? Or do I just have to live with the spurious errors/respawns?

Thanks.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin)

iD8DBQFEdLMGedHYW7bHtqIRAsa+AJ9oqqUvyH65NNpWezZTxwylvaADlwCgm4oy
z6iKf4FxCjuRvraH2cXH91E=
=02b9
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Darwin-dev mailing list      (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
This email sent to email@hidden


Follow-Ups:

Re: launchd and fork/exec?
From: Dave Zarzycki <email@hidden>


Prev by Date:
Re: StartupItems

Next by Date:
Re: launchd and fork/exec?

Previous by thread:
Re: gdb and mach exceptions

Next by thread:
Re: launchd and fork/exec?

Index(es):

Date
Thread