LSRecentTo

[Axel Luttgens]

On 17/02/07 18:37, Jon Nolan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Would someone please let me know what the LSRecentTo process does?

More exactly, it is LSRecentTool.

The binary is located at:
    /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/
        /Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/LSRecentTool

IIRC, it was related to the maintenance of the "Recent Items" menu item 
of the Apple menu during a GUI user session (it disappeared with 10.4).
A bug seems to have been introduced somewhere in 10.3.9 (or 10.3.8?), so 
that it seldomly started to eat all CPU resources and refused to quit 
when leaving the user's session; the only way to get rid of it was then 
to kill the process, before the whole box became fully unresponsive...

HTH,
Axel