NSNotification to detect other program's crashes

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I was planning on writing a small daemon that detected whether another app crashed, thinking all the while that the system would send an NSWorkspaceDidTerminateApplicationNotification, but this is not the case.

Assuming that I do not want to create a launchd process to simply re-launch the crashed application, can I detect the crash any other way?

Perhaps I could monitor the system log? That seems unduly burdensome.

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 05 '10 at 04:13

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How about watching for if/when the /usr/sbin/spindump process starts up?

answered Oct 05 '10 at 04:13

Dave DeLong

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Interesting - I didn't think about that. I'll report back soon. – Andrew J. Freyer Oct 05 '10 at 17:46

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 15 '10 at 22:18

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Turns out what worked best as a crash monitor was reading the FSEventStream for Crash Logs.

answered Oct 15 '10 at 22:18

Andrew J. Freyer

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NSNotification to detect other program's crashes

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