Hi Piotr, This sounds like a good use case for an XPC service. The service would ship in your app's bundle, and each instance of your app would have a private instance of the service that it talked to, and that instance would run with the same uid as your app. More here:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/chapters/CreatingXPCServices.html -damien On 15 Jan, 2015, at 04:25, Piotr Panasewicz <piotr.panasew...@mac.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to create a Launch Agent that would start on demand when my > bundle app requires it. I have it currently implemented like below which > monitors a specific path for existence of a file. This works ok for one user > logged in. If I there are more users logged via Fast User Switching the OS > tends to open the service for different user, not the one that’s currently > using my app. That’s because two users are now monitoring the same path and > the OS isn’t sure in which user’s context the service should run. > > Also my bundle app has LSMultipleInstancesProhibited set to true, so it isn’t > allowed to run two instances at once. But if User A opens my app and there is > a User B logged in, the service may open for User B (even the file from the > plist was created by User A and User B hasn’t touched my app). > > Therefore I need a solution that would allow my client app to open the > service for the same user it runs as. And if I close the app for User A, > switch to User B and start the client, the service would now open for User B. > > Thanks, > Peter > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" > "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";> > <plist version="1.0"> > <dict> > <key>KeepAlive</key> > <dict> > <key>PathState</key> > <dict> > <key>/Users/Shared/Company/Service.txt</key> > <true/> > </dict> > </dict> > <key>Label</key> > <string>com.company.service</string> > <key>Program</key> > <string>/Users/Shared/Company/Service</string> > <key>MachServices</key> > <dict> > <key>com.company.service</key> > <true/> > </dict> > </dict> > </plist> > > _______________________________________________ > launchd-dev mailing list > launchd-dev@lists.macosforge.org > https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/launchd-dev _______________________________________________ launchd-dev mailing list launchd-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/launchd-dev
