Title: CFPreferences AnyUser+AnyHost no longer saves
anything?
I was reading the CoreFoundation release notes
(http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.html) and noticed this:
CFPreferences
kCFPreferencesAnyUser+kCFPreferencesAnyHost preferences For applications linked on 10.5 and later, preference domains with
this AnyHost+AnyUser pair of arguments are no longer implemented with
persistent domains (that is: saved to the file system, or anywhere).
For applications linked on 10.4 and earlier, they continue to be
stored to the previous location.
Another way of stating "AnyHost+AnyUser" is
"AllHosts+AllUsers (in the universe)". It doesn't
really make sense to store preferences in such domains, as the values
should logically apply to everybody, in which case -- if actually
implemented -- it is the universal behavior of the app, and it's not a
preference. Or consider another case: the user types in an app's
license key, enabling all the features of the app, and the app writes
the license key into the AnyHost+AnyUser domain. Logically, all
that has to happen is for one user to go buy the software and license
it, and now all users on any machine should be licensed.
Obviously, that's unlikely to be what the software company
wants; more likely, the license would be for a particular computer or
for a particular user.
Uhm, this is exactly the behaviour I want. If a user enters an
SN, I want the software to be registered for all users. I want it to
be registered if they use system migration (if they buy a new
computer) or if they use NetBoot. Is this saying this is no longer
possible to do via CFPreferences on 10.5?
--
Sincerely,
Rosyna Keller
Technical Support/Carbon troll/Always needs a hug
Unsanity: Unsane Tools for Insanely Great People
It's either this, or imagining Phil Schiller in a thong.
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