site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Dkim-signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:from:to :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version :subject:date:references:x-mailer; bh=anTNzm6K2/iGsRhYm9SqtvGjPHt1uSAf5aKSpw+TLAY=; b=KhcfOEWVphM/org5YDw0WXaTx1Cxc9dDVEyjNXeBNHCvCJixY7xL22t0d9O+hVgpQJ JCiu77bPp1jOiqJw1cK9iQoL+g48y0vzDjbuymSE3xZVe9kO/UP/rrLiGK7hQtdOIPkn 674/EH282OSKGSQKQObEl2xoNdgQ+ky3KWJcE= Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references :x-mailer; b=ZXXAO9N0A3fp1ENFxQBbM2RMUHc1uraDH7mrQS4weA+brpFLGHCerDd1bFTP5S34E7 O7pILYCioPlg83z8yQC0Rdj7gDLASjoutPcw87CXig6a+9em4T7WAmcX3VAKn4M0O4Vz AsT5ssi4blhXy+WEIBwBJUEGKVnjS06XM5HY8= On Dec 16, 2008, at 2:01 AM, Terry Lambert wrote: _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... You said this was a GUI app that you didn't control the sources to. So control it anyway by renaming the binary in the bundle and putting a stub in there that will save off the id for you and then reexec the real binary: This is not a 'nice' thing to do to someone else's application. In a more limited environment (say, an internal business application), it may be reasonable, but for an at-large application (where the application is deployed to general consumers, which have more limited technical knowledge), I would think this rises to the level of being unacceptable. Problem's include: -an updater for the application may fail in an unexpected way (both for the developer of the application and the end-user) -the application may be signed, and will fail to run when modified But in the end, everyone has to decide what kind of problems they will give the end user as part of their solution for themselves. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com