[Adium-devl] Keychain Issues

[Peter Hosey]

On Apr 16, 2008, at 05:51:50, Ofri Wolfus wrote:
> The first section in that page says "Depending on the situation,  
> codesign may add to your Mach-O executable file, add extended  
> attributes to it, or create new files in your bundle's Contents  
> directory. None of your other files is modified."
>
> So apparently, it either stores the signature in the executable  
> itself or in its extended attributes. Is it just me or extended  
> attributes really feel too fragile?

It's what they're for. These problems aren't new; they existed with  
type and creator codes as well. And anyway, it's not our problem;  
it's Apple's choice to use extended attributes for this.