parental control problems - Mac OS X

[Sarah Reichelt]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:47 AM, Chris Sheffield <cmsheffield at gmail.com> wrote:
> Jacque,
>
> Here's some more info from our end. Not sure if everyone is experiencing this same behavior or not, but in our case, the executable inside the app bundle is actually getting damaged. We compared an app that had been launched with parental controls enabled for it and one that hadn't, and the one that had was about 1 MB smaller. When trying to launch the executable directly from Terminal, we get a file read error. So in this case, it looks like no amount of messing with permissions is going to fix the problem. The file is toast at that point.


Is your app trying to write a file, being denied permission, so
over-writing the executable instead?
I encountered this with an app that was writing a preferences file
with the same name as the executable. When the path was set
incorrectly, the executable got replaced.

Cheers,
Sarah