spotlightishere / launchcontrol

A GUI for launchd, similar to launchctl. Or... something.

launchcontrol

A launchd GUI with a similar goal to launchctl, or... something. Also inclues libxpc and liblaunchd to allow for easier access.

Usage

Open, and enjoy. Hardly any functionality comparable to launchctl is implemented.

Resources

• /sbin/launchd
• /bin/launchctl
• /usr/lib/system/libxpc.dylib
• launchd source from OS X 10.9 - while now outdated, some of the design remains.
• GitHub Search - if you're lucky
• Frantically Googling and learning you're the first to encounter this error
• The Five Stages of Grief
• Hopper
• Ghidra

Caveats

• The macOS Sandbox had to be disabled for this application in order to interface with launchd.
• Does not function on iOS/watchOS/tvOS without the platform-application entitlement. How you manage that is trivial/beyond the scope of this paper/other academic excuses for not actually knowing.
• This relies heavily on private XPC functionality. It is highly possible that, come next major OS release, this interface will change.

Contributing

Thank you for wanting to contribute! This source is by no means wonderful.

Please follow these loose guidelines:

• Run clang-format on all C/Objective-C source.
• Run swiftformat on all Swift source. We target Swift 5.6.

License

Released under the MIT license.