SystemStarter

SystemStarter is a system program in Mac OS X, started by Mac OS X's BSD-style init prior to Mac OS X v10.4 and by launchd in Mac OS X v10.4 and later releases, that starts system processes specified by a set of property lists.[1] SystemStarter was originally written by Wilfredo Sanchez for Mac OS X.[2] In Mac OS X v10.4, it was deprecated in favor of launchd, and kept in the system only to start system processes not yet converted to use launchd.

SystemStarter appears to have been removed from OS X 10.10 and later.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Apple Computer (April 12, 2002). "Manual Page for SystemStarter". BSD System Manager's Manual. Apple Computer. Retrieved 2006-12-23.
  2. ^ Wilfredo Sanchez (May 28, 2001). "WWDC round-up". Clever Name TBD. Archived from the original on March 11, 2007. Retrieved 2006-12-23.

External links

  • SystemStarter manual page
  • BSDCON 2002 Paper on SystemStarter
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Service management in Unix-like systems
Portable implementations
  • init
  • Initng
  • OpenRC
  • runit
Operating-system-specific
  • Linux
    • systemd
    • Upstart
  • macOS
    • launchd
    • SystemStarter
  • Solaris
    • Service Management Facility
Process supervision tools
  • daemontools
  • monit
  • runit


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