RE: lanuchd questions
RE: lanuchd questions
- Subject: RE: lanuchd questions
- From: "Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:24:36 -0400
- Thread-topic: lanuchd questions
On Monday, October 20, 2008 4:43 PM Jason Coco wrote:
> On Oct 20, 2008, at 16:34 , Karan, Cem (Civ, ARL/CISD) wrote:
>
> > Truthfully, I'd rather petition Apple to make it a part of
> launchd.
> > The
> > moment we have dependencies, then we have to worry about cycles
> > (deadlock), deciding what to do if a process that we're
> dependent on
> > goes down, etc. And, now that I'm thinking about it, there
> is another
> > cheesy method to handle the problem. Write a script that launchd
> > launches that runs your first program. When that program
> returns, the
> > script submits the other programs to launchd via 'launchctl submit'.
> > Since we haven't put anything into /Library/LaunchDaemons
> or the other
> > launchd places, we get the same effect as using /var/run, so
> > everything is always launched in the correct order each time we
> > reboot.
>
> That's kinda what I did... I ended up writing a daemon which
> was connected to launchd, starts up and does all the
> initialization stuff. It then actually manages some of the
> other processes and they all communicate over a unix socket.
Do you mean you call daemon() or fork() with exit()?
Thanks,
Cem Karan
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