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Re: Questions about launchd
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Re: Questions about launchd


  • Subject: Re: Questions about launchd
  • From: "Finlay Dobbie" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:10:12 +0100

On 25/08/07, Terry Lambert <email@hidden> wrote:
> The point of forcing you to write wrappers around standard tools
> instead of doing what the tool does is to ensure you that when the
> system is updated, you are guaranteed that the tools are updated at
> the same time that the kernel and other system components are updated,
> so your code will continue working, even if we change the system
> interface used by the tool.

However, I'm fairly sure you don't provide any guarantees that the
arguments or output of the tool will remain the same across releases,
so surely this is just moving the fragility to a different layer?

 -- Finlay
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