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Re:Mac OS Screenshot does not Allow DVD Player to Appear in ... by lukegb on Thursday May 30, 2013 @09:19AM (#5792270)
What does happen if you try to attach gdb? You can't, or the application just quits, or do you get some error message? I'm somewhat curious now.
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Re:Mac OS Screenshot does not Allow DVD Player to Appear in ... by lordgilman on Thursday May 30, 2013 @09:24AM (#5792301)
I think this is the story that the parent was referencing. Here's the story from 2005 and a kernel module loadable at runtime that gets around the problem.

https://blogs.oracle.com/ahl/entry/mac_os_x_and_the

http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/code/macosx/Leopard_PT_DENY_AT...

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Re:Mac OS Screenshot does not Allow DVD Player to Appear in ... by hjaltij on Thursday May 30, 2013 @09:28AM (#5792319)
It's probably just PT_DENY_ATTACH that causes the debugger to quit.
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