On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 10:44:24 -0700, Quincey Morris said:

>> Note: The /tmp directory is not accessible from sandboxed apps. You
>must use the NSTemporaryDirectory function to obtain a temporary
>location for your app’s temporary files.
>
>That seems to answer your comment (NSTemporaryDirectory() does seem to
>be the right API) and Kyle's last comment (sandboxing doesn't
>intrinsically disable file writing -- it merely restricts places where
>files can be written without entitlements to a few known locations).

Ouch.  In fact, the word "must" is troubling.  I'm using 
URLForDirectory:inDomain:appropriateForURL:create:error: with 
NSItemReplacementDirectory successfully with App Sandbox.  Hopefully they mean 
"must" as opposed to hardcoding /tmp.

>The deeper question is whether a spotlight worker process is running in
>an *app* sandbox at all, or whether it has some other kind of security
>context.

Indeed.

Cheers,

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Sean McBride, B. Eng                 s...@rogue-research.com
Rogue Research                        www.rogue-research.com 
Mac Software Developer              Montréal, Québec, Canada

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