On 2010 Sep 23, at 15:02, John Pannell wrote: > I would guess you are looking to write a launchd "Agent"
Yes, in theory. In practice, it's a little messy… > perhaps WatchPaths might be promising if Word can reliably be seen to modify > the filesystem in a specific location at launch. Yes, because unfortunately as you can see in man launchd.plist(5), launchd does not have any triggers for watching other processes launching or terminating. I know. I've read it many times looking for one :( > Otherwise, an "always-on" agent with a run loop waiting for notification for > one app is not going to use a lot of cycles :-) Indeed, this is the other alternative. Both alternatives will work, but both are ugly. The second is less fragile. For your information, there is a launchd mailing list, launchd-...@lists.macosforge.org. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
