On 29 May 2012, at 15:42, Mark Allan wrote: > For anyone following, using temporary entitlements only gets rid of two of > the four errors, so I still can't make scheduling via launchd work. > > sandboxd still spits out: > launchctl(14634) deny job-creation > > and Xcode/run log still gives: > launch_msg(): Socket is not connected > > Other than rolling my own scheduling and writing a helper app which runs > constantly in the background, can anyone think of a way around this? > > Thanks > Mark
OK. After nearly a week of head-banging, I'm just about ready to throw in the towel, dump sandboxing and potentially the Mac App Store altogether. I spent the best part of yesterday reinventing the wheel and implementing my own scheduling mechanism to put into a helper app which would run in the background constantly as a login item... the timing/scheduling bit works fine, but the helper app can't actually DO anything because it runs in a different sandbox from the main app!! This means I can't access the user's preferences without a temporary entitlement, and can't access the resources within my main app at all. My helper app sits in Main.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/MainHelper.app and is launched (based on user prefs) by calling SMLoginItemSetEnabled((CFStringRef)[NSString stringWithString:@"<my app identifier>.helpername"], true) I've tried giving the helper the same bundle identifier as the main app, but that doesn't work (as expected, but I wanted to try anyway!). I've even tried getting the path of the helper app ([[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath]) and removing the last 4 path components to get the path to the main application and launching it via NSWorkspace, so that I could then launch my helper that way and inherit the sandbox, but sandboxd gives more permission violations when attempting to launch the main application. I suspect that would have been cause for appstore rejection anyway! I feel like I've missed something obvious, but I just can't see it. Is there a way to make the helper app run in the same sandbox as the main app? Many thanks for your help. Mark _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com