I'm developing a macOS application that tracks the duration of a user's session using a timer, which is displayed both in the main window and in an menu bar extra view. I have a couple of questions regarding the timer's behavior:
What happens to the timer if the user closes the application's window (causing the app to become inactive) but does not fully quit it? Does the timer continue to run, pause, or behave in some other way?
Will the app nap feature stop the timer when app is in-active state?
When the application is inactive and the system is either in sleep mode or locked, does the timer’s tolerance get affected? In other words, will the timer fire with any additional delay compared to its scheduled time under these conditions?
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I am encountering an issue with my application, BloxOneEndpoint.pkg, which includes two services:
rc_service_infoblox – Runs as the root user.
Controller Application – Runs as a normal user.
Although a thread within rc_service_infoblox is running fine and performing its expected tasks, I notice that the service appears as "Not Responding" in Activity Monitor. Despite normal functionality, this status is concerning, as it may indicate some issue to customer.
I would appreciate any insights into why this might be happening and how to resolve it. Is there a specific API or mechanism I should use to ensure the service remains in a "Running" state in Activity Monitor?
Thank you for your guidance.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Processes & Concurrency
Tags:
Endpoint Security
Service Management
I have BGProcessingTask & BGAppRefreshTask working fine. The main purpose of my use of BGProcessingTask is to upload a file to AWS S3 using multipart/form-data. I have found that any file above about 2.5MB times out after running almost four minutes. If I run the same RESTful api using curl or Postman, I can upload a 25MB file in 3 seconds or less.
I have tried to deliberately set .earliestBeginDate to 01:00 or 02:00 local time on the iPhone, but that does not seem to help.
I use the delegate (yes, I am writing in Objective C) - URLSession:task:didSendBodyData:totalBytesSent:totalBytesExpectedToSend: and find that the iOS system uploads about 140kB every 15 seconds or so.
I am looking for recommendations or insight into how I might enable uploads of 25MB files. I would be happy it I could do just one a day for my use case.
I provide code on how I set up the NSURLSession and NSURLSessionDownloadTask, as it is my guess that if there is something that needs to be modified it is there.
I have to believe there is a solution for this since I read in many posts here and in StackOverflow how developers are using this functionality for uploading many, many files.
NSURLSessionConfiguration *sConf = [NSURLSessionConfiguration backgroundSessionConfigurationWithIdentifier:bkto.taskIdentifier];
sConf.URLCache = [NSURLCache sharedURLCache];
sConf.waitsForConnectivity = YES;
sConf.allowsCellularAccess = NO;
sConf.networkServiceType = NSURLNetworkServiceTypeVideot;
sConf.multipathServiceType = NSURLSessionMultipathServiceTypeNone;
sConf.discretionary = YES;
sConf.timeoutIntervalForResource = kONEHOURINTERVAL;
sConf.timeoutIntervalForRequest = kONEMINUTEINTERVAL;
sConf.allowsExpensiveNetworkAccess = NO ;
sConf.allowsConstrainedNetworkAccess = NO;
sConf.sessionSendsLaunchEvents = YES;
myURLSession = [NSURLSession sessionWithConfiguration:sConf delegate:self delegateQueue:nil];
And then later in the code...
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:pth]];
request.HTTPMethod = kHTTPPOST;
request.HTTPBody = [NSData my body data];
request.timeoutInterval = 60;
[request setValue:@"*/*" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Accept"];
[request setValue:@"en-us,en" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Accept-Language"];
[request setValue:@"gzip, deflate, br" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Accept-Encoding"];
[request setValue:@"ISO-8859-1,utf-8" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Accept-Charset"];
[request setValue:@"600" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Keep-Alive"];
[request setValue:@"keep-alive" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Connection"];
NSString *contType = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"multipart/form-data; boundary=%@",bnd];
[request setValue:contType forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
[request addValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%lu",(unsigned long)myData.length] forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Length"];
and here are a few lines from my logs to show the infrequent multi-part uploads of only small chunks of data by the iOS system:
-[BKSessionManager URLSession:task:didSendBodyData:totalBytesSent:totalBytesExpectedToSend:]: bytesSent = 393,216
-[BKSessionManager URLSession:task:didSendBodyData:totalBytesSent:totalBytesExpectedToSend:]: totalBytesSent = 393,216
-[BKSessionManager URLSession:task:didSendBodyData:totalBytesSent:totalBytesExpectedToSend:]: task = BackgroundDownloadTask <76A81A80-4703-4686-8742-A0048EB65108>.<2>, time Fri Mar 7 16:25:27 2025
-[BKSessionManager URLSession:task:didSendBodyData:totalBytesSent:totalBytesExpectedToSend:]: bytesSent = 131,072
-[BKSessionManager URLSession:task:didSendBodyData:totalBytesSent:totalBytesExpectedToSend:]: totalBytesSent = 524,288
-[BKSessionManager URLSession:task:didSendBodyData:totalBytesSent:totalBytesExpectedToSend:]: task = BackgroundDownloadTask <76A81A80-4703-4686-8742-A0048EB65108>.<2>, time Fri Mar 7 16:25:42 2025
-[BKSessionManager URLSession:task:didSendBodyData:totalBytesSent:totalBytesExpectedToSend:]: bytesSent = 131,072
-[BKSessionManager URLSession:task:didSendBodyData:totalBytesSent:totalBytesExpectedToSend:]: totalBytesSent = 655,360
-[BKSessionManager URLSession:task:didSendBodyData:totalBytesSent:totalBytesExpectedToSend:]: task = BackgroundDownloadTask <76A81A80-4703-4686-8742-A0048EB65108>.<2>, time Fri Mar 7 16:25:56 2025
-[BKSessionManager URLSession:task:didSendBodyData:totalBytesSent:totalBytesExpectedToSend:]: bytesSent = 131,072
-[BKSessionManager URLSession:task:didSendBodyData:totalBytesSent:totalBytesExpectedToSend:]: totalBytesSent = 786,432
I have an app that uses background audio recording. From what others say, I have enabled the audio background mode to keep the audio session active, and this worked. But when submitting the app to the app store, the app was rejected because the audio background mode is only supposed to be used for audio playback.
How do I create this background mode while following Apple's guidelines?
We've seen a recent increase in background terminations:
blue - System Pressure
orange - Task Timeout
I'm trying to understand the increase in system-pressure terminations, since there's no corresponding increase in memory at suspension. Are there other system resources for which iOS will terminate an app?
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Processes & Concurrency
Tags:
Organizer Window
Background Tasks
Im using the low-level C xpc api <xpc/xpc.h> and i get this error when I run it: Underlying connection interrupted. I know this error stems from the call to xpc_session_send_message_with_reply_sync(session, message, &reply_err);. I have no previous experience with xpc or dispatch and I find the xpc docs very limited and I also found next to no code examples online. Can somebody take a look at my code and tell me what I did wrong and how to fix it? Thank you in advance.
Main code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <xpc/xpc.h>
#include <dispatch/dispatch.h>
// the context passed to mainf()
struct context {
char* text;
xpc_session_t sess;
};
// This is for later implementation and the name is also rudimentary
void mainf(void* c) {
//char * text = ((struct context*)c)->text;
xpc_session_t session = ((struct context*)c)->sess;
dispatch_queue_t messageq = dispatch_queue_create("y.ddd.main",
DISPATCH_QUEUE_SERIAL);
xpc_object_t message = xpc_dictionary_create(NULL, NULL, 0);
xpc_dictionary_set_string(message, "test", "eeeee");
if (session == NULL) {
printf("Session is NULL\n");
exit(1);
}
__block xpc_rich_error_t reply_err = NULL;
__block xpc_object_t reply;
dispatch_sync(messageq, ^{
reply = xpc_session_send_message_with_reply_sync(session,
message,
&reply_err);
if (reply_err != NULL) printf("Reply Error: %s\n",
xpc_rich_error_copy_description(reply_err));
});
if (reply != NULL)
printf("Reply: %s\n", xpc_dictionary_get_string(reply, "test"));
else printf("Reply is NULL\n");
}
int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
// Create seperate queue for mainf()
dispatch_queue_t mainq = dispatch_queue_create("y.ddd.main",
DISPATCH_QUEUE_CONCURRENT);
dispatch_queue_t xpcq = dispatch_queue_create("y.ddd.xpc",
NULL);
// Create the context being sent to mainf
struct context* c = malloc(sizeof(struct context));
c->text = malloc(sizeof("Hello"));
strcpy(c->text, "Hello");
xpc_rich_error_t sess_err = NULL;
xpc_session_t session = xpc_session_create_xpc_service("y.getFilec",
xpcq,
XPC_SESSION_CREATE_INACTIVE,
&sess_err);
if (sess_err != NULL) {
printf("Session Create Error: %s\n",
xpc_rich_error_copy_description(sess_err));
xpc_release(sess_err);
exit(1);
}
xpc_release(sess_err);
xpc_session_set_incoming_message_handler(session, ^(xpc_object_t message) {
printf("message recieved\n");
});
c->sess = session;
xpc_rich_error_t sess_ac_err = NULL;
xpc_session_activate(session, &sess_ac_err);
if (sess_err != NULL) {
printf("Session Activate Error: %s\n",
xpc_rich_error_copy_description(sess_ac_err));
xpc_release(sess_ac_err);
exit(1);
}
xpc_release(sess_ac_err);
xpc_retain(session);
dispatch_async_f(mainq, (void*)c, mainf);
xpc_release(session);
dispatch_main();
}
XPC Service code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <xpc/xpc.h>
#include <dispatch/dispatch.h>
int main(void) {
xpc_rich_error_t lis_err = NULL;
xpc_listener_t listener = xpc_listener_create("y.getFilec",
NULL,
XPC_LISTENER_CREATE_INACTIVE,
^(xpc_session_t sess){
printf("Incoming Session: %s\n", xpc_session_copy_description(sess));
xpc_session_set_incoming_message_handler(sess,
^(xpc_object_t mess) {
xpc_object_t repl = xpc_dictionary_create_empty();
xpc_dictionary_set_string(repl, "test", "test");
xpc_rich_error_t send_repl_err = xpc_session_send_message(sess, repl);
if (send_repl_err != NULL) printf("Send Reply Error: %s\n",
xpc_rich_error_copy_description(send_repl_err));
});
xpc_rich_error_t sess_ac_err = NULL;
xpc_session_activate(sess, &sess_ac_err);
if (sess_ac_err != NULL) printf("Session Activate: %s\n",
xpc_rich_error_copy_description(sess_ac_err));
},
&lis_err);
if (lis_err != NULL) {
printf("Listener Error: %s\n", xpc_rich_error_copy_description(lis_err));
xpc_release(lis_err);
}
xpc_rich_error_t lis_ac_err = NULL;
xpc_listener_activate(listener, &lis_ac_err);
if (lis_ac_err != NULL) {
printf("Listener Activate Error: %s\n", xpc_rich_error_copy_description(lis_ac_err));
xpc_release(lis_ac_err);
}
dispatch_main();
}
Hi. I'm trying to learn macOS app development. i'm trying to run unix commands:
func execute(_ command: String) throws -> String {
let process = Process()
let pipe = Pipe()
process.executableURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: "/bin/bash")
process.arguments = ["-c", command]
process.standardOutput = pipe
// process.standardError
try process.run()
process.waitUntilExit()
guard let data = try pipe.fileHandleForReading.readToEnd() else {
throw CommandError.readError
}
guard let output = String(data: data, encoding: .utf8) else {
throw CommandError.invalidData
}
process.waitUntilExit()
guard process.terminationStatus == 0 else {
throw CommandError.commandFailed(output)
}
return output
}
when try to run "pgrep" in sandbox mode ON, i get:
sysmon request failed with error: sysmond service not found error. if i turn it off it works. i don't know what to do. anyone can help me out?
I'm working on an XPC server and need to determine the owner of the client process that connects to it. Specifically, I'd like to retrieve details such as the fully qualified user name or other identifying information from the XPC client connection.I'm considering using xpc_connection_get_pid() to get the client’s process ID, but I’m unsure of the best way to map this to the user who owns the process.
Is there a recommended API or approach to capture this information securely?
I'm using Swift 6 and tasks to concurrently process multiple PDF files for rendering, and it's working well.
But currently I'm manually limiting the number of simultaneous tasks to 2 out of fear that the system might run many tasks concurrently without having enough RAM to do the PDF processing.
Testing on a variety of devices, I've tried increasing the task limit and haven't seen any crashes, but I'm quite concerned about the possibility. Any given device might be using a lot of RAM at any moment, and any given PDF might strain resources more than the average PDF.
Is there a recommended technique for handling this kind of scenario?
Should I not worry about it and just go ahead and start a high number of tasks, trusting that the system won't run too many concurrently and therefore won't run out of RAM?
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Processes & Concurrency
I have used C APIs to create a XPC server(mach service) as a launch daemon. I use dispatch_source_create () followed by dispatch_resume() to start the listener. I dont have any code for cleaning up memory.
I want to make sure that the XPC server is shutdown gracefully, without any memory leaks.
I know that launchd handles the cycle and the XPC framework takes care of XPC objects.
But do I need to do additional cleanup when the XPC listener is shutdown ?
We are building a 'server' application that can either run as a daemon or can run in background without showing any GUI. Basically, the end user can either configure this to run as a daemon so that it can be tied to the user's session or will launch the process which user will start and quit as needed.
I wanted to understand what is the recommended mechanism for such an application from Apple -
Should this application be built as a macOS Bundle ? Apple documentation also says that we should not daemonize the process by calling fork. Hence if we create a unix-style executable, will I not need to fork to make it run in a detached state when I launch the executable via double-click ? [Reference Link]
Is it fine to have an application on macOS which is a bundle but does not show any UI when launched by double click on the app-icon or via 'open'? While we have been able to achieve this by using NSApplicationMain and not showing the UI, was wondering if using CFRunLoop is best for this case as it is a non-gui application.
If we can get the right documentation link or recommendations on how we should build such an application which can run in a non-gui mode and also in a daemonized manner, it will help us.
Should the application be always built as a macos bundle or should it be a unix-style executable to support both the cases - by the same application/product and how should we look at the distribution of such applications.
I am developing a macOS non-interactive macOS application which does not show any ui.
i want to block main thread and do all the work on worker thread . Once done with work in worker thread, want to unblock main thread by exiting event loop to terminate application.
Because i dont want to show any UI or use any Foundation/Cocoa functionality, i am thinking of using CFRunLoop to block main thread from exiting until i finish my work in worker thread.
When i tried this in a project, I am able to finish work in worker thread after block main thread using CFRunLoop.
I also want this application to be a bundled application, which can be launched by double clicking on application bundle . But when i tried it in my xcode project by launching it using double clicking on application bundle, application keeps on toggling/bouncing in the dock menu with a status "Not responding". Although i am able to complete my work in worker thread.
import Foundation
let runLoop = CFRunLoopGetCurrent()
func workerTask() {
DispatchQueue.global().async {
print("do its work")
sleep(5) // do some work
print("calling exit event loop")
CFRunLoopStop(runLoop)
print ("unblocking main thread")
}
}
workerTask ()
// blocking main thread
print ("blocked main thread")
CFRunLoopRun()
print ("exit")
Why i am getting this application bouncing in doc menu behavior ? I tried by using NSApplicationMain instead of CFRunLoop in my project, in that case i didnt get this behavior .
Does NSApplicationMain does some extra work before starting NSRunLoop which i am not doing while using CFRunLoop, which is showing this toggling/Bouncing application icon in Dock menu ?
or Is this bouncing app icon issue is related to run loop i am using which is CFRunLoop ?
Note : If i dont use a bundled application and use a commandline application then i am able to do all steps in worker thread and exit main thread as i wanted after finishing my work . But i need to do all this in application which can be launched using double clicking (bundled applcation).
If not by using CFRunLoop, then how can i achive this ? - Create a application which shows no UI and do all work in worker thread while main thread is blocked. Once work is done unblock main thread and exit. And user should be able to launch application using double click the application icon.
I've been seeing a high number of BGTaskScheduler related crashes, all of them coming from iOS 18.4. I've encountered this myself once on launch upon installing my app, but haven't been able to reproduce it since, even after doing multiple relaunches and reinstalls. Crash report attached at the bottom of this post.
I am not even able to symbolicate the reports despite having the archive on my MacBook:
Does anyone know if this is an iOS 18.4 bug or am I doing something wrong when scheduling the task? Below is my code for scheduling the background task on the view that appears when my app launches:
.onChange(of: scenePhase) { newPhase in
if newPhase == .active {
#if !os(macOS)
let request = BGAppRefreshTaskRequest(identifier: "notifications")
request.earliestBeginDate = Calendar.current.date(byAdding: .hour, value: 3, to: Date())
do {
try BGTaskScheduler.shared.submit(request)
Logger.notifications.log("Background task scheduled. Earliest begin date: \(request.earliestBeginDate?.description ?? "nil", privacy: .public)")
} catch let error {
// print("Scheduling Error \(error.localizedDescription)")
Logger.notifications.error("Error scheduling background task: \(error.localizedDescription, privacy: .public)")
}
#endif
...
}
2025-02-23_19-53-50.2294_+0000-876d2b8ec083447af883961da90398f00562f781.crash
My load average on a largely idle system is around 22, going up to 70 or so periodically; SSMenuAgent seems to be consuming lots of CPU (and, looking at spindump, it certainly seems busy), but... it's not happening on any other system whose screens I am observing. (Er, I know about load average limitations, the process is also consuming 70-98% CPU according to both top and Activity Monitor.)
Since this machine (although idle) has our network extension, I'm trying to figure out if this is due to that, or of this is generally expected. Anyone?
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Processes & Concurrency
We would be creating N NWListener objects and M NWConnection objects in our process' communication subsystem to create server sockets, accepted client sockets on server and client sockets on clients.
Both NWConnection and NWListener rely on DispatchQueue to deliver state changes, incoming connections, send/recv completions etc.
What DispatchQueues should I use and why?
Global Concurrent Dispatch Queue (and which QoS?) for all NWConnection and NWListener
One custom concurrent queue (which QoS?) for all NWConnection and NWListener? (Does that anyways get targetted to one of the global queues?)
One custom concurrent queue per NWConnection and NWListener though all targetted to Global Concurrent Dispatch Queue (and which QoS?)?
One custom concurrent queue per NWConnection and NWListener though all targetted to single target custom concurrent queue?
For every option above, how am I impacted in terms of parallelism, concurrency, throughput & latency and how is overall system impacted (with other processes also running)?
Seperate questions (sorry for the digression):
Are global concurrent queues specific to a process or shared across all processes on a device?
Can I safely use setSpecific on global dispatch queues in our app?
I understand that GCD and it's underlying implementations have evolved over time. And many things have not been shared explicitly in Apple documentation.
The most concepts of DispatchQueue (serial and concurrent queues), DispatchQoS, target queue and system provided queues: main and globals etc.
I have some doubts & questions to clarify:
[Main Dispatch Queue] [Link] Because the main queue doesn't behave entirely like a regular serial queue, it may have unwanted side-effects when used in processes that are not UI apps (daemons). For such processes, the main queue should be avoided. What does it mean? Can you elaborate?
[Global Concurrent Dispatch Queues] Are they global to a process or across processes on a device. I believe it is the first case but just wanted to be sure.
[Global Concurrent Dispatch Queues] Does system create 4 (for each QoS) * 2 (over-commiting and non-overcommiting queues) = 8 queues in all. When does which type of queue comes into play?
[Custom Queue][Target Queue concept] [swift-corelibs-libdispatch/man/dispatch_queue_create.3] QUOTE The default target queue of all dispatch objects created by the application is the default priority global concurrent queue. UNQUOTE Is this stil true?
We could not find a mention of this in any latest official apple documentation (though some old forum threads (one more) and github code documentation indicate the same).
The official documentation only says:
[dispatch_set_target_queue] QUOTE If you want the system to provide a queue that is appropriate for the current object UNQUOTE
[dispatch_queue_create_with_target] QUOTE Specify DISPATCH_TARGET_QUEUE_DEFAULT to set the target queue to the default type for the current dispatch queue.UNQUOTE
[Dispatch>DispatchQueue>init] QUOTE Specify DISPATCH_TARGET_QUEUE_DEFAULT if you want the system to provide a queue that is appropriate for the current object. UNQUOTE
What is the difference between passing target queue as 'nil' vs 'DISPATCH_TARGET_QUEUE_DEFAULT' to DispatchQueue init?
[Custom Queue][Target Queue concept] [dispatch_set_target_queue] QUOTE The system doesn't allocate threads to the dispatch queue if it has a target queue, unless that target queue is a global concurrent queue. UNQUOTE
The system does allocate threads to the custom dispatch queues that have global concurrent queue as the default target.
What does that mean? Why does targetting to global concurrent queues mean in that case?
[System / GCD Thread Pool] that excutes work items from DispatchQueue: Is this thread pool per queue? or across queues per process? or across processes per device?
I'm looking into a newer XPC API available starting with macOS 14. Although it's declared as a low-level API I can't figure it how to specify code signing requirement using XPCListener and XPCSession. How do I connect it with xpc_listener_set_peer_code_signing_requirement and xpc_connection_set_peer_code_signing_requirement which require xpc_listener_t and xpc_connection_t respectively?
Foundation XPC is declared as a high-level API and provides easy ways to specify code signing requirements on both ends of xpc.
I'm confused with all these XPC APIs and their future:
Newer really high-level XPCListener and XPCSession API (in low-level framework???)
Low-level xpc_listener_t & xpc_connection_t -like API. Is it being replaced by newer XPCListener and XPCSession?
How is it related to High-level Foundation XPC? Are NSXPCListener and NSXPCConnection going to be deprecated and replaced by XPCListener and XPCSession??
Hello everyone!
I'm having a problem with background tasks running in the foreground.
When a user enters the app, a background task is triggered. I've written some code to check if the app is in the foreground and to prevent the task from running, but it doesn't always work. Sometimes the task runs in the background as expected, but other times it runs in the foreground, as I mentioned earlier.
Could it be that I'm doing something wrong? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
here is code:
class BackgroundTaskService {
@Environment(\.scenePhase) var scenePhase
static let shared = BackgroundTaskService()
private init() {}
// MARK: - create task
func createCheckTask() {
let identifier = TaskIdentifier.check
BGTaskScheduler.shared.getPendingTaskRequests { requests in
if requests.contains(where: { $0.identifier == identifier.rawValue }) {
return
}
self.createByInterval(identifier: identifier.rawValue, interval: identifier.interval)
}
}
private func createByInterval(identifier: String, interval: TimeInterval) {
let request = BGProcessingTaskRequest(identifier: identifier)
request.earliestBeginDate = Date(timeIntervalSinceNow: interval)
scheduleTask(request: request)
}
// MARK: submit task
private func scheduleTask(request: BGProcessingTaskRequest) {
do {
try BGTaskScheduler.shared.submit(request)
} catch {
// some actions with error
}
}
// MARK: background actions
func checkTask(task: BGProcessingTask) {
let today = Calendar.current.startOfDay(for: Date())
let lastExecutionDate = UserDefaults.standard.object(forKey: "lastCheckExecutionDate") as? Date ?? Date.distantPast
let notRunnedToday = !Calendar.current.isDate(today, inSameDayAs: lastExecutionDate)
guard notRunnedToday else {
task.setTaskCompleted(success: true)
createCheckTask()
return
}
if scenePhase == .background {
TaskActionStore.shared.getAction(for: task.identifier)?()
}
task.setTaskCompleted(success: true)
UserDefaults.standard.set(today, forKey: "lastCheckExecutionDate")
createCheckTask()
}
}
And in AppDelegate:
BGTaskScheduler.shared.register(forTaskWithIdentifier: "check", using: nil) { task in
guard let task = task as? BGProcessingTask else { return }
BackgroundTaskService.shared.checkNodeTask(task: task)
}
BackgroundTaskService.shared.createCheckTask()
I'm working on an enterprise product that's mainly a daemon (with Endpoint Security) without any GUI component. I'm looking into the update process for daemons/agents that was introduced with Ventura (Link), but I have to say that the entire process is just deeply unfun. Really can't stress this enough how unfun.
Anyway...
The product bundle now contains a dedicated Swift executable that calls SMAppService.register for both the daemon and agent.
It registers the app in the system preferences login items menu, but I also get an error.
Error registering daemon: Error Domain=SMAppServiceErrorDomain Code=1 "Operation not permitted" UserInfo={NSLocalizedFailureReason=Operation not permitted}
What could be the reason?
I wouldn't need to activate the items, I just need them to be added to the list, so that I can control them via launchctl.
Which leads me to my next question, how can I control bundled daemons/agents via launchctl? I tried to use launchctl enable and bootstrap, just like I do with daemons under /Library/LaunchDaemons, but all I get is
sudo launchctl enable system/com.identifier.daemon
sudo launchctl bootstrap /Path/to/daemon/launchdplist/inside/bundle/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.blub.plist
Bootstrap failed: 5: Input/output error (not super helpful error message)
I'm really frustrated by the complexity of this process and all of its pitfalls.
Hello,
I am currently developing an iOS application using SensorKit. I encountered an issue when attempting to fetch SensorKit data in the background using background tasks (appRefresh, processing). The following error occurs:
In the delegate function func sensorReader(_ reader: SRSensorReader, fetching fetchRequest: SRFetchRequest, failedWithError error: any Error) {}, I receive the error:
SRErrorDataInaccessible.
In code specific manner:
start and handle background fetch (appRefresh)
func handleAppRefreshTask(task: BGAppRefreshTask) {
logger.logWithServer(level: .default, message: "background fetch start", category: String(describing: BackgroundTaskManager.self))
scheduleBackgroundFetch()
let queue = OperationQueue()
queue.maxConcurrentOperationCount = 1
let fetchOperation = FetchOperation()
queue.addOperation(fetchOperation)
task.expirationHandler = {
self.logger.logWithServer(level: .error, message: "background fetch expirated", category: String(describing: BackgroundTaskManager.self))
queue.cancelAllOperations()
}
fetchOperation.completionBlock = {
task.setTaskCompleted(success: !fetchOperation.isCancelled)
}
}
Background fetch operation class
class FetchOperation: Operation {
override func main() {
guard !isCancelled else { return }
Task {
// this function will execute fetch request for all user allowed sensorReader, 'func fetch(_ request: SRFetchRequest)'
await SensorkitManager.shared.startFetchAndUpload()
}
}
}
I have the following questions:
Is it possible to fetch SensorKit data in the background?
If it is possible, why does the above error occur?
If it is possible, could you provide the solution code and the correct workflow to avoid this error?
Thank you.