[REVIEW] launchd support for smbd and winbindd

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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James,

> In general, for an application to be a good launchd citizen it should
>     1. launch on-demand, poking launchd to acquire any file descriptors
>     2. pro-actively exit when it's idle
>     3. not unlink named pipes that launchd is listening on
> 
> winbindd does none of these. You can certainly configure launchd to
> simply keep winbindd running, but in that case it would be a permanent
> system service. For most cases on OS X, it is preferable to have
> winbindd launched on demand.

Could you define "most cases"?  maybe it's because I'm thinking
in terms of domain integration and not file/print serving here,
but I cannot think of when it is ever a good idea to run winbind
for short periods.  Either it should always run or not.



cheers, jerry
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