>> Thanks for your reply. I was hoping to avoid handling that inspection 
>> myself, but even if I go that route there's another problem: the ancillary 
>> tool isn't a proper bundle, it's just a plain executable, so NSBundle's 
>> initializers will just return nil. That's a pity because there's even 
>> -[NSBundle preflightAndReturnError:] which sounds to be exactly what I want.
>> 
>> Offhand does anyone know how to inspect the architecture(s) of a plain 
>> executable file? I've been googling for a little bit and haven't hit upon 
>> anything that works yet.
> 
> Won't otool do the job for you?

Yes, as would "lipo -info" or "file", but running/parsing another tool's output 
just for this seems a bit silly.

In terms of functions I can call, I found "dlopen_preflight", but it seems to 
fail, even when I know my tool can be run via NSTask.

~Martin

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