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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? by grishka on Friday May 22, 2020 @02:32PM (#23275358)
So since these permissions apply to process trees, what happens if you put launchd in there?
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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? by aasasd on Friday May 22, 2020 @04:28PM (#23276564)
The computer will probably hang while it tries to solve the chicken-egg problem.

Isn't launchd Mac's ‘init’? I.e. run before anything else.

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Re:MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design? by grishka on Friday May 22, 2020 @05:16PM (#23277155)
Yes, and that's the point — everything you run will theoretically inherit the permission from it.
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