Service Management framework supports installing and uninstalling services, including Service Management login items, launchd agents, and launchd daemons.
General:
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DevForums tag: Service Management
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Service Management framework documentation
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Daemons and Services Programming Guide archived documentation
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Technote 2083 Daemons and Agents — It hasn’t been updated in… well… decades, but it’s still remarkably relevant.
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EvenBetterAuthorizationSample sample code
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SMJobBless sample code
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Sandboxing with NSXPCConnection sample code
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WWDC 2022 Session 10096 What’s new in privacy introduces the new
SMAppServicefacility, starting at 07˸07 -
BSD Privilege Escalation on macOS DevForums post
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Background items showing up with the wrong name DevForums post
Related tags include:
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XPC, Apple’s preferred inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism
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Inter-process communication, for other IPC mechanisms
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