[asterisk-dev] [Code Review] Launchd property list for Mac OS X

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Monday 15 March 2010 03:16:09 Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:45:52AM -0000, Tilghman Lesher wrote:
> > > On 2010-03-14 15:59:06, Olle E Johansson wrote:
> > > >
> > > >     IS there really any point of adding DESTDIR here? Would it work
> > > > in any other directory... Just guessing here, but I suspect it only
> > > > works in /Library and the user's ~Library
> >
> > The point of it would be if you're managing a farm of Asterisk servers,
> > and you directed DESTDIR to be a mountpoint for multiple servers.
>
> That assumes a rather rigid file-system layout. Is that layout so
> common on OSX?

I think you forget that OS X has a single vendor, and, as such, they are free
to mandate filesystem standard layouts.  I know of no setting that would allow
you to alter the path (other than to choose a different path within the
standard).  See the FILES section of the following URL for more information:

http://developer.apple.com/Mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/launchd.plist.5.html

-- 
Tilghman