Yeah, you might be able to send out a distributed notification and have the 
menuling listen for it. When it receives it it can kill itself or go through 
the normal teardown/quit procedure.

—Rob


> On Jul 25, 2023, at 6:15 AM, Alex Zavatone via Cocoa-dev 
> <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote:
> 
> What if you called a method in the other process and the other process kills 
> itself with a kill?  
> 
> Is kill no longer functional from any process?
> 
>> On Jul 25, 2023, at 2:49 AM, Gabriel Zachmann via Cocoa-dev 
>> <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com <mailto:cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Is there a simple way for one process to send a single signal to another 
>> process?
>> Both processes are my programs, one is a regular app, the other a menu bar 
>> item.
>> Both are launched by the same user.
>> 
>> In the old unix days, I would have used kill(2) and send a SIGUSR1 , but as 
>> far as I understand, this is no longer possible.
>> (At least,  not without privilege elevation, which seems too complicated.)
>> 
>> All hints and ideas will be appreciated!
>> Best regards, Gabriel
>> 
>> 
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