> On 09 Sep 2015, at 17:54, Quinn The Eskimo! <eski...@apple.com> wrote: > > > On 9 Sep 2015, at 10:20, Andreas Fink <af...@list.fink.org> wrote: > >> What is the best approach to run a system daemon which listens on a >> protected port ( < 1000) while the App is delivered through the AppStore >> (and hence is sandboxed). > > In addition to what Stéphane said, there's still no Mac App Store-compatible > way for an app to bind to low-numbered ports. The obvious approach, binding > directly to the port, won't work because OS X still requires root for binding > to low-numbered ports (despite the fact that we lifted that restriction on > iOS years ago). Other approaches, like using a launchd daemon privileged > helper tool, are not compatible with the Mac App Store sandboxing > requirements. > > I'm sorry I don't have better news.
Thats what I thought so... So making a PKG installer with a launchd daemon for the server side which a user can optionally download and install together with a client only in the AppStore is probably the way out. Is the archaic (port < 1000) limit being lifted anytime soon ?
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