Check out the Month of Apple Bugs for how dangerous APE is.
Noah On 3/24/07, David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I found out this was due to an Application Enhancer I was running that was only intended for one application. While "APEs" are neat they clearly insert themselves in between mach calls on some applications, which, in my case, unless I was running as root, caused drawterm to spin. Scary... but the "Spin Control" Developer tool caught it. I had to open up a system preferences panel and disable the enhancement in error. There is a dialog to select applications to avoid interposing the enhancer with, but it doesn't work unless your application is a .app. (so much for us command line junkies...) At any rate, I've now got drawterm without having to run with root perms, and it explains why I didn't see this behavior on my laptop. Beware of Haxies and APEs on Mac OS X, they almost all claim to be "safe", but that kind of activity is just scary if you ask me. (as is mach_override) - Dave
