On 2009 Feb 22, at 15:36, Michael Ash wrote:
An agent is (I think!) a daemon that gets linked to a user's login session and is automatically started and stopped by launchd.
Until a few weeks ago, I thought that I was stupid for not being able to state in my own words the "differences" "between" an application, background application, daemon, LSUI-whatever; after having read several articles on them. Then I found this "definition" in the ProcessSerialNumber documentation:
"applications (defined as things which can appear in the Dock that are not documents and are launched by the Finder or Dock)".
Since I read that, I don't think I'm stupid any more. At best, this space is multi-dimensional and depends on the context. For practitioners, I'd say: "As long as you can make it work, you can call it whatever you want to."
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