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Self-Healing macOS Jobs: Multi-Slot Retry Pattern for launchd
A developer created a self-healing launchd job pattern that fires multiple times per day and stops on success. The approach uses a done-marker file to prevent redundant runs after the first success. It solves failures from sleep, network issues, and timeouts without complex error handling.
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Clever workaround for macOS's unreliable background job execution, but the real fix should come from Apple improving launchd's reliability.
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It Can Die in Its Sleep — Self-Healing launchd Jobs with Multi-Slot Firing and a Done-Marker →
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