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tom

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what's the counterpart of a Windows service on Mac OSX

On Windows, we call something running at background as service. What about on Max OSX, is there such thing? what is it called?

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Coxy
Coxy

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I would say that the closest analog is a launchd service.
Launchd is Apple's replacement for init and cron, among others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchd

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user557219
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They’re called agents or daemons. See this other question.

Upvotes: 3

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