site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On Jun 1, 2006, at 8:00 PM, Peter Seebach wrote: What mystifies me is why you can't see that launchd is capable of doing what you're asking for, even though we don't choose to use it that way. davez _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... In message <a0601020bc0a5238cd6f5@[192.168.0.222]>, Peter Bierman writes: Possibly because every time anyone asks about dependencies and ordering, they're told that launchd absolutely will not provide any way to do this, and applications which want it are broken and not important. I don't believe any of us ever said that they were unimportant. Broken, yes, unimportant no. If anybody suggested the latter, I'm sorry. On the matter of dependencies and ordering, let's be fair here. launchd DOES provide a mechanism for such scenarios. Yes, it is different than the old-school Unix rc.d/StartupItem view of the universe, and yes, one can't just switch to launchd from the old way without some small amount of code changes, but it does support dependancies and ordering. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com