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Re:An Embarrassing Bug in Mac App Sandboxing by ajasmin on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @01:34AM (#5329722)
Does anyone have a theory as to what may be causing this bug?
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Re:An Embarrassing Bug in Mac App Sandboxing by martinced on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @06:41AM (#5330627)
Some tokenization not working correctly?

I'm pretty sure this as to do with "TextEdit" being processed as "TextEdit" and "Text Edit" being processed as "Text" and "Edit" (and maybe neither "Text" nor "Edit" being allowed, while "Text Edit" is whitelisted but for whatever reason tokenization screwed up).

"Whitespace in filename/dirname" issues are typically tokenization issues in 3rd party scripts. Here it's probably related to some bogus lookup in some blacklist/whitelist.

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