Re: Performance issue on macOS 10.15 obtaining display name for ~/Desktop, ~/Documents, and ~/Downloads
Re: Performance issue on macOS 10.15 obtaining display name for ~/Desktop, ~/Documents, and ~/Downloads
- Subject: Re: Performance issue on macOS 10.15 obtaining display name for ~/Desktop, ~/Documents, and ~/Downloads
- From: Saagar Jha via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 21:49:46 -0700
Saagar Jha
> On Apr 23, 2020, at 21:26, Allan Odgaard via Cocoa-dev
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 24 Apr 2020, at 9:57, Rob Petrovec wrote:
>
>>> Also weird, why would it phone home for a shell script which has neither
>>> been stapled nor even code-signed?
>> I think you answered the question just then… a "shell script which has
>> neither been stapled nor even code-signed”. Google XProtect & Gatekeeper.
>
> GateKeeper is basically Safari adding a quarantine flag (via extended
> attributes)
Nit: not just Safari; other applications do this to at their discretion when
appropriate (for example, if they too download files from the internet).
Quarantine is just one part of GateKeeper.
> to files downloaded form the internet, and then having Finder check this
> flag, throwing up a dialog if the flag is set, and recently, also checking if
> the code signature is from a verified developer (possibly refusing to launch
> at all, if not).
>
> XProtect is basically a blacklist that applications are checked against. If
> an application matches, it’s considered malware. The blacklist is a local
> file on your system but updated by Apple.
>
> These things operate very differently than having low-level system calls
> potentially contact Apple’s servers every time a process is launched on your
> system (or, as it appears to be the case on my system, when processes are
> accessing certain locations in the file system).
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| | >Re: Performance issue on macOS 10.15 obtaining display name for ~/Desktop, ~/Documents, and ~/Downloads (From: Gabriel Zachmann via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Performance issue on macOS 10.15 obtaining display name for ~/Desktop, ~/Documents, and ~/Downloads (From: Saagar Jha via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Performance issue on macOS 10.15 obtaining display name for ~/Desktop, ~/Documents, and ~/Downloads (From: Gabriel Zachmann via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Performance issue on macOS 10.15 obtaining display name for ~/Desktop, ~/Documents, and ~/Downloads (From: Allan Odgaard via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Performance issue on macOS 10.15 obtaining display name for ~/Desktop, ~/Documents, and ~/Downloads (From: Rob Petrovec via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>) |
| | >Re: Performance issue on macOS 10.15 obtaining display name for ~/Desktop, ~/Documents, and ~/Downloads (From: Allan Odgaard via Cocoa-dev <email@hidden>) |