Ancestors

Written by JJTech on 2024-11-13 at 17:29

I’ve been experimenting with Launch Services, it’s integral to how apps are launched on iOS and macOS and yet seems almost completely unexplored.

Publishing my notes here for anyone interested https://github.com/JJTech0130/launchservices

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Written by JJTech on 2024-11-13 at 17:31

in theory I should be able to use sparserestore to overwrite the LaunchServices DB and do some funky things, but the database format is completely custom and difficult to work with.

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Written by JJTech on 2024-11-13 at 19:08

For some reason somebody at Apple decided that it would be a great idea to completely rewrite the .csstore database format from scratch in 2016... the old version had been in use since at least 2003.

It's bad enough to have a custom database format, but why make that decision again in 2016, rather than switching to SQLite??

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