Re: Sandboxing and "helper apps"
Re: Sandboxing and "helper apps"
- Subject: Re: Sandboxing and "helper apps"
- From: Stephane Sudre <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 13:53:37 +0200
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Todd Heberlein <email@hidden> wrote:
> In the past you could include a full UNIX application inside a Mac application bundle. For example, in the directory
>
> MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS
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> could be the Cocoa executable "MyApp" and the UNIX executable "my_helper_app".
>
> In addition to running this helper app from the Cocoa app, this UNIX app could be launched by the command line from a Terminal application
>
> $ /Applications/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/my_helper_app -i /Users/Todd/some_file
>
> or via a launchd configuration to be run in the background when I log in.
>
>
> Is this functionality no longer allowed with Sandboxing?
It's allowed. IIRC, when the helper app is launched from the main
application, it inherits the entitlements/restrictions of its parent.
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