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The P2P app could make itself more trustworthy. On OS X, it could opt into the App Sandbox such that it could not read files unrelated to what it has downloaded
by mcculley 14y ago
The P2P app could make itself more trustworthy. On OS X, it could opt into the App Sandbox such that it could not read files unrelated to what it has downloaded.
If you run fs_usage against Spotify on OS X, you will see that it is reading files in other places than where it downloads to.
- csense 14y agoIsn't it the norm on UNIX-like OS'es for things to use tons of dynamic libraries and spew pieces of themselves all over different directories?
- mcculley 14y agoI would not say this is the norm. If you look at Sandbox-enabled third party applications such as Google Chrome, it is well defined what libraries it dynamically links to outside of the directory it is installed in.
- ohazi 14y agoNative OS X apps either statically link everything, or shove all of their dynamic libs into a single .app package... that's why their binaries are so big. This avoids shared lib versioning nightmares and makes everything "just work" (including drag-and-drop installs), but it also means you have 30 bajillion copies of libXYZ on your disk.