xpcutil

Golang Tool to interact with Launchd and other services with XPC

Original source code for xpc_wrapper.c and xpc_wrapper.h can be found here: http://newosxbook.com/articles/jlaunchctl.html

To build: go build -o xpcutil cmd/main.go

Commands

• list: List all available services
• send: Send an XPC message to a target service
• start: Start a service
• stop: Stop a service
• submit: Submit a launchd job (WIP)
• load: Load a plist file with launchd
• unload: Unload a plist file
• procinfo: Obtain process information for a given pid
• status: Obtain status information about a given service
• listen: Create an xpc service and listen for connections (Not implemented)

Arguments

• data: Base64 encoded json data to send to a target service
• file: Path to the plist file for load/unload commands
• keepalive: Set the keepalive flag to true for the submit command
• pid: Target process id for the procinfo command
• privileged: If set to true the XPC_CONNECTION_MACH_SERVICE_PRIVILEGED flag will be used when connecting to the service (default false)
• program: Command to execute with the submit command
• service: Target XPC service name for the start, stop, and status commands. When using the submit command, this will be the label