Re: Alternative to bootstrap_register?
Re: Alternative to bootstrap_register?
- Subject: Re: Alternative to bootstrap_register?
- From: Damien Sorresso <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:28:00 -0800
On Nov 19, 2009, at 1:15 AM, Alastair Houghton wrote:
> On 18 Nov 2009, at 23:18, Damien Sorresso wrote:
>> We're trying to discourage projects from spawning their own child processes.
>
> For the case where the processes that are trying to communicate are parent and child already, so they won't be running unless both of them are running, I can't see an obvious advantage to using launchd (versus just doing a bootstrap_check_in()), and while it isn't significantly more complicated to use it (especially on 10.6), I'm not certain I see the benefit. Maybe I'm missing something?
bootstrap_check_in() is designed for on-demand job to obtain their receive rights from launchd. By using launchd, the requestor can simply send a message to a port to get its helper process running, rather than having to go through the fork(2)/exec(3) dance, installing a kevent to monitor for the child's death, respawning if the child dies prematurely, etc.
With launchd, you can just send a request and not have to worry about the process' lifecycle.
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Damien Sorresso
BSD Engineering
Apple Inc.
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