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djmdjm • today at 12:03 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Entitlements are a great system for user applications, but pretty much unusable for OSS system applications as AIUI they need codesigned binaries


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mrpippy • today at 3:21 AM

Code signing and entitlements are integrated into the binary.

(Restricted entitlements require a provisioning profile which requires a bundle, but restricted entitlements are pretty rare)

kccqzy • today at 1:54 AM

They could have designed a system to put the code signature inside Mach-O but they chose not to.