Re: Alternative to bootstrap_register?
Re: Alternative to bootstrap_register?
- Subject: Re: Alternative to bootstrap_register?
- From: Damien Sorresso <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:40:53 -0600
On Nov 27, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Uli Kusterer wrote:
> On 20.11.2009, at 19:31, Damien Sorresso wrote:
>> bootstrap_check_in() doesn't require root privileges. It only requires that you be advertising the named service in your launchd.plist.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but the plist is static, and needs to be installed with root permissions by an installer. How would we generate a plist with a dynamic service name without root permissions? Trying to coerce bootstrap_check_in() and generating a file on disk for this purpose seems like a terrible hack to me.
Put it in ~/Library/LaunchAgents. launchd has per-user variants. Or is there some reason this job needs to run in a privileged context?
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Damien Sorresso
BSD Engineering
Apple Inc.
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