macOS Alternative to bootstrap_info()

[blkgandolf]

Hello,

I'm writing a program to enumerate port information and I came across some documents that referenced bootstrap_info() API, however it seems in the latest Mac this API is no longer supported. Is there some alternative way to query this information from the bootstrap service (launchd) in C?

Thanks,

 

[Senor Cuete]

Calls to system functions in C are part of the now-deprecated Carbon API. There should be an Objective C/Swift interface for doing this with Cocoa.

 

[Senor Cuete]

It looks looks like there is a Cocoa class to handle this:

NSMachBootstrapServer
A port name server that takes and returns Mach port objects.