Re: Lion crashed by AppleScript
Re: Lion crashed by AppleScript
- Subject: Re: Lion crashed by AppleScript
- From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:41:44 -0500
On Jul 22, 2011, at 3:47 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
> An interesting thread.
>
> UNIX buffers open files. It's very likely that a script accessing a plist file is really talking to a block of memory that is holding a cache of most or perhaps all of the file. That cache could even exist for a short time after its application has quit.
In the handler I posted, the Finder isn't running when the .plist file is written. This should be safe, but obviously isn't. We need some documentation on this, but where is it?
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