On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Todd Heberlein <[email protected]> wrote:
>  In the past you could include a full UNIX application inside a Mac 
> application bundle. For example, in the directory
>
>        MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS
>
> could be the Cocoa executable "MyApp" and the UNIX executable "my_helper_app".
>
> In addition to running this helper app from the Cocoa app, this UNIX app 
> could be launched by the command line from a Terminal application
>
>        $ /Applications/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/my_helper_app -i 
> /Users/Todd/some_file
>
> or via a launchd configuration to be run in the background when I log in.
>
>
> Is this functionality no longer allowed with Sandboxing?

It's allowed. IIRC, when the helper app is launched from the main
application, it inherits the entitlements/restrictions of its parent.

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