launchd in Depth
Nice article about launchd.“Fast forward several years and Apple is now the highest volume UNIX vendor in the world. Furthermore the base of Mac OS X is open source and Apple uses many OSS projects in Darwin. Apple also has created projects and turned them out into the OSS world. (I’m well aware of the issues that some in the community have with Apple’s OSS participation level, it’s just not the focus of this article.) Recently Apple has loosed a new beast onto the world.