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The article covers the dropbox app on windows. How about others platforms, like OS X?
by vferreira 12y ago
The article covers the dropbox app on windows. How about others platforms, like OS X?
- 1_player 12y agoI've just run a quick strace on Linux but I don't see it accessing anything outside by ~/Dropbox folder.
- greenleafjacob 12y agoIt calls inotify on the Dropbox folder only https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9136831 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9136831
- danieldk 12y agoI dtruss-ed the dbfseventsd instances, while creating a file in my home directory, and I do see stuff like: 833/0x1c7d: read_nocancel(0x6, "/Users/daniel/foobarbaz\0", 0x17) = 23 0 833/0x1c7d: access("/Users/daniel/foobarbaz\0", 0x4, 0x17) = 0 0 Same thing for temporary directories (/private/var/folders), Chrome caches, etc. So, at the very least they seem to monitor the whole filesystem for events. Maybe that's even necessary, though: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/FSEvents_ProgGuide/UsingtheFSEventsFramework/UsingtheFSEventsFramework.html https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin... seems to suggest it's not.