Re: [9fans] solved... Mac OS X Native drawterm "spinning" problem, unless run as root

["Noah Evans" <noah.evans@gmail.com>]

Check out the Month of Apple Bugs for how dangerous APE is.

Noah

On 3/24/07, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
> I found out this was due to an Application Enhancer I was running that
> was only intended for one application.
>
> While "APEs" are neat they clearly insert themselves in between mach
> calls on some applications, which, in my case, unless I was running as
> root, caused drawterm to spin.
>
> Scary... but the "Spin Control" Developer tool caught it.
>
> I had to open up a system preferences panel and disable the
> enhancement in error.  There is a dialog to select applications to
> avoid interposing the enhancer with, but it doesn't work unless your
> application is a .app. (so much for us command line junkies...)
>
> At any rate, I've now got drawterm without having to run with root
> perms, and it explains why I didn't see this behavior on my laptop.
>
> Beware of Haxies and APEs on Mac OS X, they almost all claim to be
> "safe", but that kind of activity is just scary if you ask me.  (as is
> mach_override)
>
> - Dave
>