site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com So, can you not use NSTask or similar mechanism to run ps directly? Wade Tregaskis ICQ: 40056898 AIM, Yahoo & Skype: wadetregaskis MSN: wjtregaskis@students.latrobe.edu.au iChat & email: wadetregaskis@mac.com Jabber: wadetregaskis@jabber.org Google Talk: wadetregaskis@gmail.com http://homepage.mac.com/wadetregaskis/ -- Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? _______________________________________________ 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... We don't require any authorization dialogs anywhere (drag across install) and some of our customers are in some, ah, slighly paranoid environments where a third party SUID-root tool would put us at a disadvantage because they'd have to spend resources auditing the tool (and our competitors don't have any such tools to audit). We may have to end up shelling out to ps on intel boxes... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com