Debugging an app bundle on MacOSX

[Dirk Hohndel]

Henrik Brautaset Aronsen <subsurface at henrik.synth.no> writes:

> Dirk Hohndel wrote:
>> Henrik Brautaset Aronsen<subsurface at henrik.synth.no>  writes:
>>
>>> I had no problems when running as 1) or 2).  /tmp/file.txt was written
>>> to, and so was /var/log/system.log.
>>>
>>> However, when run as 3) or 4), neither works.  Both operations fails
>>> silently.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what's going on here?  Mandatory sandboxing?  It's
>>> driving me quite mad.
>>
>> Wow, that does sound extremely annoying. It will make it very hard to
>> get debug output from people on Macs. And it makes no sense whatsoever
>> not to allow syslog from an app.
>>
>> Do an exit(0) if file == NULL to see if the open fails already...
>
> Yeah, I tried that as well.  file is non-null.  I have no idea what's 
> going on here.

So you are getting a valid file descriptor, you are writing to that file
yet nothing gets written? That's nuts.

/D