Hey Joshua, Sorry to get back to you late, I was with family this weekend.
Anyhow, from how I understand it, the application must be started internally in-order to get the IPC setup correctly. However, I'm not terribly well versed in the internals of the IPC framework, so I can't be 100% sure about that. -Kyle On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Joshua Root <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2015-8-8 07:35 , Kyle Sammons wrote: > > MacPorts.framework still uses a privileged helper tool to do the > things > > that require root, right? Why couldn't it be run in this way? > > > > > > Uhhh, no, not as far as I know. The privileged helper is needs to be > > communicated with through the IPC library, which wouldn't be possible if > > it was launched through a shell. > > Why not? Doesn't it just use a unix socket? > > - Josh >
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