That's interesting. So, how would one go about checking to see whether or not SMJobBless needed to be called?
I suppose one would need to check the version number of the installed job vs. the one in the application package. I also suppose one would also try to connect with the helper tool and, if that fails, then call SMJobBless. On Sep 30, 2011, at 1:40 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > On Sep 30, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Eric Gorr <mail...@ericgorr.net> wrote: > >> On Sep 30, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote: >> >>> As I understand it, you have to bless the job only once, not at each >>> launch, so you shouldn't have to request the authorization each time. >> >> It would be interesting if that is how it actually works, but I am quite >> certain it doesn't work that way. > > It does. SMJobBless submits a blessed plist to launchd. It does not do > one-off jobs. You use once it to install a privileged launchd task that you > can talk to in the future. > > --Kyle Sluder _______________________________________________ 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