site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On Feb 27, 2009, at 11:32 AM, Tim Murison wrote: Thanks for the pointer, I missed that header. Jim _______________________________________________ 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 that case, check out launch.h, the API to the launchd for your user. You can use it to send messages to the daemon, which can start/stop/list jobs amongst other things. It isn't the easiest thing to work with, and I don't think Apple encourage its use for job management. Do you have a reference to Apple discouraging its use for job control? Is fork+exec the encouraged usage pattern? This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com