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_3

3. Daemon Management

Volodymyr Vashurkin¹  

(1)

Dnipro, Ukraine

 

In this chapter, we’ll see how to set up and manage daemons. We will discuss the launchctl tool in detail. We will also cover the Swift API to compensate the lack of an official API from Apple for daemon management.

Table 3-1

Daemons domain-targets

Domain Target	Description
system	Targets the system domain. The system domain manages the root services and is considered a privileged execution context. Anyone may read or query the system domain, but root privileges are required to make modifications.
gui/<uid>	Targets the user domain ...