site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On May 24, 2006, at 6:04 PM, Dave Zarzycki wrote: On May 24, 2006, at 12:24 PM, Brian Bergstrand wrote: Reading the launchd Getting Started doc I see: Thanks. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEdO5EedHYW7bHtqIRAkDUAJ9tbPlQ/q/sXgXel50PeWY2swoHdQCguxiR eXwuTLOdYqHs6LJt3afFysw= =TjgB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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... I have a tool that loads a non-IOKit kext via executing kextload. For various reasons, using kextload directly from the launchd plist won't work (the tool does some pre and post processing). "The only things that are strictly prohibited, however, are fork()/ exit() combinations (including indirect methods, such as the daemon (3) library call)." I'm not forking a child of the tool, but of course my tool fork/ exec's kextload (and kextunload and possibly kextstat). When this happens, launchd starts spewing errors in system.log and re- spawning my tool. Is there anything I can do to work around this? Or do I just have to live with the spurious errors/respawns? That's not really what launchd was meant for, Really? The mantra coming from Apple is use launchd for all startup needs. As StartupItems are going away and I have a need to load a non- IOKit kext at boot, launchd seems to be the only game in town. but if you must, RunAtLoad is the flag you want to set to true and you want OnDemand also set to true (or not set at all). OK, I'll try that. I have RunAtLoad set to true now, but OnDemand is set (explicitly) to false. davez This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com