Re: authorization services
Re: authorization services
- Subject: Re: authorization services
- From: Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:17:41 -0600
On Sep 14, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Mark Thomas wrote:
I was wondering if anybody could tell me if it's correct to use
authorizationExecuteWithPrivileges and wait() calls together, so the
parent process wait's until that new child process finishes.
Googling seems to imply this from the examples I've seen.
Correct. Well, you could not call wait(), but then you'll just wind up
with a zombie task waiting for the parent to reap it or exit, which
could confuse some people.
However reading the documentation (within XCode) the
authorizationExecuteWithPrivileges, doesn't mention that the
privileged process is actually a child of the process which executed
this ?
AEWP() actually does do a fork()/exec() internally; see <http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/libsecurity_authorization/libsecurity_authorization-36329/lib/trampolineClient.cpp
> for details.
Nick Zitzmann
<http://www.chronosnet.com/>
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