Re: Helper Tool on FireWire

FROM : Gerriet M. Denkmann
DATE : Sun Jun 25 20:51:04 2006

To resume:

it might be possible to manually mount an external partition without 
the nosuid option (not tried).

There are two levels of protection:
1. Finder Get Info "Ignore ownership on this volume" (does not affect 
suid)
2. mounting with MNT_NOSUID flag.

What I do now:
NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains( NSApplicationSupportDirectory, 
NSUserDomainMask, YES );
statfs( path, buf);
check buf.f_flags & MNT_NOSUID

if not ok then use path = NSTemporaryDirectory() instead.
check again for suid. If again no good give up.

use path for my helper tool.

Gerriet.