get information about my installed PriviledgedHelperTools

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Created Jun ’20

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My app installs a couple PrivilegedHelperTools.

Right now I get information about my previously installed tools via the long deprecated SMJobCopyDictionary. E.G.:

SMJobCopyDictionary( kSMDomainSystemLaunchd, (__bridge CFStringRef)toolName )

which I then use to determine whether these tools need an update at my app's launch time.

Is there a better, modern, non-deprecated way to look up information about my previously installed helper tools?

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DTS Engineer OP

Apple

Jun ’20

Is there a better, modern, non-deprecated way to look up information about my previously installed helper tools?

No, but also yes. There’s no better way to do what you’re currently doing, but you may be able to avoid the whole issue by getting this information from the daemon itself using XPC. That’s generally how I approach this.

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