startupitems and port load

Daniel J. Luke dluke at geeklair.net
Mon Sep 14 08:01:33 PDT 2009


On Sep 13, 2009, at 7:51 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> I assume this means there are ports that would not work right when  
> managed directly by launchd. Can anybody think of any examples of  
> this?

Anything that calls daemon() or fork()s to run in the background and  
also doesn't have an option to not do this.

... also anything that uses daemondo's system state transition  
handling (like bind9 uses --restart-netchange)

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