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

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

[David Leimbach]

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

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

[Noah Evans]

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
>