SystemStarter is a system program in
Mac OS X
macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac computers. Within the market of desktop and lapt ...
, started by Mac OS X's BSD-style
init
In Unix-based computer operating systems, init (short for ''initialization'') is the first process started during booting of the computer system. Init is a daemon process that continues running until the system is shut down. It is the direc ...
prior to
Mac OS X v10.4 and by
launchd in Mac OS X v10.4 and later releases, that starts system processes specified by a set of
property lists. SystemStarter was originally written by Wilfredo Sanchez for Mac OS X.
In Mac OS X v10.4, it was deprecated in favor of launchd, and kept in the system only to start system processes not yet converted to use launchd.
SystemStarter appears to have been removed from OS X 10.10 and later.
References
External links
SystemStarter manual pageBSDCON 2002 Paper on SystemStarter
MacOS
Process (computing)
Unix process- and task-management-related software
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