site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com In message <17536.33956.56029.154930@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>, Andrew Gallatin writes:

Speaking as a 3rd party developer, I sure hope you keep them, or some other 3rd party supplies a simple way to start things on MacOSX via an rc.d type mechanism. I'm with Peter: I have no time to figure out launchd..

A disclaimer is perhaps in order; I have done a fair bit with figuring out launchd, and written (positively, even!) about it. I just don't think it's a good tool for the very early bootstrapping phase of system startup, because there's a lot of existing programs that need some kind of dependency-checking functionality provided externally. From a design standpoint, I'm not even sure they're wrong; that seems like the kind of code that's tricky enough that we shouldn't have to have fifty separate implementations. -s _______________________________________________ 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... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com