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Re: Sandboxing and file references
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Re: Sandboxing and file references


  • Subject: Re: Sandboxing and file references
  • From: David Riggle <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:33:15 -0700

>>> The explicit entitlement to read a file following an open/drag exists
>>> only until the application quits (a fragile exception exists in using
>>> URLs stored into the restorable state archive, but even that won't work
>>> long term). Â Thus keeping references to files is essentially impossible
>>> (long term) in a sandboxed application - bizarre.
>>
>> One can only hope that this is because App Sandbox is currently not fully baked.
>>
>> Otherwise, how would something like Xcode work sandboxed? Â An .xcodeproj contains zillions of relative paths to files that the user, at some point in the past, explicitly added.
>>
>> Either App Sandbox is unfinished, or Apple is taking us towards of word of iFart-type apps only.
>
> +1 amen to that

That would make a good SAT analogy question.

"Mac OS X Lion" is to "Jumping the shark"

as

"App Sandbox" is to "iFart"


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