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Updating the kext cache
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Updating the kext cache


  • Subject: Updating the kext cache
  • From: Andrew Keller <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:51:33 -0500

By accident, I noticed that if you install a new kernel extension on 10.8 using an installer package, Installer will update the kext cache for you even if you don't touch /System/Library/Extensions.  Is this behavior intended to be relied upon?

Upon investigating, I noticed that the timestamp of /System/Library/Extensions did in fact get updated, which may or may not have caused the system to update the kext cache.  This might be a coincidence involving the timestamp of /System/Library/Extensions inadvertently getting modified by something else in my installer script, in which case the answer to the question is definitely 'no'.

Thanks,
Andrew Keller


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