Launchd, execve and execvp ...

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 29, 2006, at 13:09, David M. Cole wrote:

> At 1:54 PM -0600 10/29/06, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> Wait, are you using Mac OS X, or just Darwin? I thought part of  
>> the reason for renaming DarwinPorts to MacPorts was that we didn't  
>> want to support plain Darwin anymore....
>
> yes, just plain darwin ... din't know about that restriction (you  
> might want to put that on a web page or something ...).

Oh, there are lots of things we should put on the web page or  
something. This transition we're currently undergoing has thrown  
everything into disarray.

I believe the problem was that most of the developers did not in fact  
have a pure Darwin box to test with, so things constantly broke for  
Darwin, and with Macs and therefore Mac OS X gaining popularity, it  
was felt that supporting Darwin was not very feasible. I have the  
apache2 port installed and I do use launchctl to start and stop it,  
and it works fine on Mac OS X. But I also unfortunately have no  
experience with pure Darwin.