How to check if service is enabled with launchd

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Published on 2013-06-11T15:43:48Z Indexed on 2013/06/25 4:21 UTC
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I can't figure out how to check from within C/C++ if a service is enabled via launchd. I know I can use launchctl from the command line and am currently executing ' launchctl list myServiceName ' from fork/exec.

I've found that boostrap_look_up() might be the way to check this but I can't find enough documentation to condense this down to a simple example.

Can you shed light on this? All I need is a small function to test if my service is actually registered and available.

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