Re: Getting Process purpose information (example: rpc.geo)
Re: Getting Process purpose information (example: rpc.geo)
- Subject: Re: Getting Process purpose information (example: rpc.geo)
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 11:56:07 -0800
On Jan 18, 2013, at 11:06 AM, John Richardson <email@hidden> wrote:
> Is there a good source of up to date information on the most likely processes listed in the Activity Monitor. Also, Frameworks. Not just the running information, but the purpose of the process ["it controls the printing",....].
> Examples: rpc.geo, rpc.net and their frameworks.
Not that I know of. Some of the system daemons are standard BSD stuff, some of the Apple ones are fairly well-known like mDNSResponder, and a lot are undocumented black boxes that you shouldn’t really need to know about.
Frameworks don’t show up in Activity Monitor, so I’m a little confused why you’re lumping them in with processes. Public frameworks are generally documented in the Apple docs that come with Xcode; private frameworks are by definition undocumented and shouldn’t be messed with (if you want to get in the app store, or just want your app to not break between OS revisions.)
If you have a specific question about particular daemons, the darwin-userlevel list might be an appropriate place to ask. Xcode-users isn’t; it’s about developer tools, not OS internals.
—Jens
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