site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Hi Mario, On Sep 25, 2008, at 2:09 PM, Mario Emmenlauer wrote: Hi Garth, A good place to start is the UNIX 03 spec itself: <http://www.unix.org/single_unix_specification/> For the fork-problem, however, my previous reference http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/A... But it leaves aside how the standard tasks are to be performed on the Mac, then :-D Have you read Technical Note TN2083 "Daemons and Agents"? <http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2005/tn2083.html> Cheers, Mario --gc ____________________________________________________________________ Garth Cummings gcummings@apple.com Sr. Software Engineer Apple Developer Technical Support <http://developer.apple.com/technicalsupport> _______________________________________________ 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... Garth Cummings wrote: On Sep 25, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Mario Emmenlauer wrote: Searching apple.com for posix_spawn() lists almost exclusively the manpages of the functions, no more. That's indeed a good reference, thanks. For getting started it would be good to have additionally something with more overview, like the technotes. The technotes on Carbon and launchd I found extremely good. They specify nicely what the design-idea of Mac OS is. even notes: [...] Although many of the preceding behaviors may be standard tasks for daemons to perform, they are not recommended when running under launchd. [...] This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com