Archive for February, 2008

HFSDebug Bugfix Release 3.10

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

I discovered a bug in hfsdebug. It causes hfsdebug to crash while printing Access Control Entry (ACE) details for certain files or folders. For example, consider the standard ~/Library/Preferences/ folder on Leopard.

$ ls -lde ~/Library/Preferences
drwx——@ 167 singh staff … /Users/singh/Library/Preferences
0: group:everyone deny delete

This folder has an ACE for the group everyone. In particular, [...]


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