site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com

Mac OS X 10.4 had a limit (LAUNCHD_FAILED_EXITS_THRESHOLD). What was the reason to remove it ? You could as Dave or file a bug. But see above; there are legitimate reasons for persistently retrying. Probably they outweighed the likelihood of an actually broken plists remaining installed or exporting a service legitimately required by some other process and the system remaining functional. -- Terry

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... On Sep 17, 2008, at 6:30 AM, Cristescu Alexandru wrote: 1. If option 'KeepAlive' is more powerful than the old 'OnDemand' from Tiger, why there isn't an (sub)option, something like 'MaxRetries', to control the number of successive failures before launchd aborts the task? 2. Why this new comportment to retry infinitely is not documented? I guess you missed the part where I said you could ask Dave or file a bug. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com