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fun fact about `sandbox-exec`, the macOS util this relies on: Apple officially deprecated it in macOS Sierra back in 2016! Its manpage has been saying it's dep
by varenc 7mo ago
fun fact about `sandbox-exec`, the macOS util this relies on: Apple officially deprecated it in macOS Sierra back in 2016!
Its manpage has been saying it's deprecated for a decade now, yet we're continuing to find great uses for it. And the 'App Sandbox' replacement doesn't work at all for use cases like this where end users define their own sandbox rules. Hope Apple sees this usage and stops any plans to actually deprecate sandbox-exec. I recall a bunch of macOS internal services also rely on it.
- jasomill 7mo agoAside from named profiles, I'm not sure it wasn't born deprecated. In particular, has the profile language ever been documented by anything other than the examples used by the OS and third parties reverse engineering it?
- varenc 7mo agoGood point. I have no idea when it was introduced. Would be funny if it's been deprecated since its existence.