Sorry, red herring then, I thought that this was the gotcha with Catalina.

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> On 28 Jul 2020, at 13:31, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Sorry, what OS are you running?
> 
> 10.9.5, sorry, I thought I had mentioned that.
> 
> ```
> %> cat /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> set "$(dirname "$0")"/X11.bin "${@}"
> 
> if [ -x ~/.x11run ]; then
>        exec ~/.x11run "${@}"
> fi
> 
> case $(basename "${SHELL}") in
>        bash)          exec -l "${SHELL}" --login -c 'exec "${@}"' - "${@}" ;;
>        ksh|sh|zsh)    exec -l "${SHELL}" -c 'exec "${@}"' - "${@}" ;;
>        csh|tcsh)      exec -l "${SHELL}" -c 'exec $argv:q' "${@}" ;;
>        es|rc)         exec -l "${SHELL}" -l -c 'exec $*' "${@}" ;;
>        *)             exec    "${@}" ;;
> esac
> ```
> 
> The script is indeed executed by bash, which then overlays itself by the 
> user's shell. Isn't /bin/sh a symlink or hardlink to /bin/bash on later OS 
> versions, and wouldn't any restrictions applied to bash apply to almost 
> anything (because afaik /bin/sh can hardly be avoided when spawning 
> executables)?
> 
> Until now I've been testing with a temp. dir under /tmp, is that location 
> off-limits too under SIP (IOW, should I test again in $HOME or my personal 
> $TMPDIR)?!
> 
> R.


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