Re: MDSchemaCopyAllAttributes() returning nil
Re: MDSchemaCopyAllAttributes() returning nil
- Subject: Re: MDSchemaCopyAllAttributes() returning nil
- From: Dave DeLong <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:04:34 -0600
This is the root tool that powers the Mozy backup product. One of the
features is that users can specify queries to determine which files to
back up. However, it needs to find all files across the system, and
not just the users files. Hence, our backup utility has to run as
root. Part of our query stuff needs to have access to the list of
spotlight attributes for optimization reasons.
So, how can a root program get a complete list of Spotlight
attributes? (Either via a function or getting a list for each user
and combining them, etc)
Thanks,
Dave
On Jun 18, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Dave DeLong<email@hidden>
wrote:
This application *is* the privileged helper process, and it needs
to know about all the Spotlight attributes that spotlight has. The
problem is that Spotlight doesn't seem to like the root user.
Why is the privileged process asking Spotlight for anything? Try to
factor as much code as possible out of your privileged tool.
In this particular instance, don't forget that Spotlight importers can
live in ~/Library/Spotlight as well as within app bundles in
~/Applications. Any answer that MDSchemaCopyAllAttributes() would
give you when running as root might be incorrect for the user who's
actually the results.
--Kyle Sluder
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