Re: another look at macOS SIP

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 1:52 PM Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> On 2019-09-10 19:14:19 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> > I think the way forward here is to get rid of all uses of system() for
> > calling between PostgreSQL programs. There are only a handful of those,
> > and we already have well-tested replacement code like spawn_process() in
> > pg_regress.c that could be used. (Perhaps we could also use that
> > opportunity to get rid of the need for shell quoting?)
>
> Yea, I think that'd be good, regardless of SIP.

+1, and making some progress on the SIP issue would be good, too, even
if we don't fix everything right away. It seems entirely possible
that Apple will make this even more annoying to disable than it
already is.

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