Re: FSCopyObjectAsync: useless and crippled
Re: FSCopyObjectAsync: useless and crippled
- Subject: Re: FSCopyObjectAsync: useless and crippled
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 15:20:42 +1000
Actually, I think the all-or-nothing part of Apple's authentication
services
is the lame part. Either I give an app carte blanche to do
whatever as root
or the operation executes as the current user.
I'd much rather have an Apple supplied API that uses an Apple tool
as well
as authentication services to copy the files, so Auth-Services can
tell me
what is being copied/moved/whatever to and from where... Apple's
Installer
could be the first app to use this.
I agree entirely. I tried to hint at this at the end of my previous
post, but I think I missed the point in my writing.
The problem really is building some uber-app to do all these common
tasks (or many little apps; whatever)... they need to have an
interface which suits the use of any program which might want to use
them, which is no mean feat even for "trivial" tasks like copying
files. There's also the callback issues, design issues (i.e.
asynchronous design, as I mentioned previously), etc.
Still, I'd like to see Apple focus their attention on such things.
Of course, there's still no way for the end-user to know if the
dialog is
the real Authentication-Services dialog or just a tool by third-
party to
capture the user's password.
Yes, I've always found the big emphasis on Auth Services to be
amusing for just this reason. There are ways to present "secure"
dialogs, but many of those pursued have been comical at best - like
Microsoft's proposal of writing your favourite pet's name in a border
around the window.
But then, if it works...
Wade Tregaskis (AIM/iChat, Yahoo & Skype: wadetregaskis, ICQ:
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-- Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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