macOS Daemonology: Communicate with Daemons, Agents, and Helpers Through XPC

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V. VashurkinmacOS Daemonologyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7277-0_2

2. Daemon Anatomy

Volodymyr Vashurkin¹  

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Dnipro, Ukraine

 

This chapter explains the anatomy of the daemons: what they consist of, what properties they have, and where they reside in the file system.

Also, the chapter provides an example of a simple daemon that you can write and run yourself in five minutes.

What Is the Daemon?

A daemon is a plist file (job description).

A daemon in the *OS operating system family is represented by a config file (.plist) with a description of the daemon and the executable to run. Daemons are run under launchd.

Note

In this book, the term daemon is used to ...