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Watching Under The Hood Of Tiger's Spotlight

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-at-it dept.

jaketheitguy writes "Over at KernelThread.com, Amit Singh has released a commandline app called FSLogger for looking under the hood of Tiger's Spotlight. You can watch all kinds of filesystem changes going on in realtime. The utility apparently intercepts and displays filesystem change data as it goes out to Spotlight from the kernel. It even tells you which app is making the changes. Looks like Apple has included some pretty powerful API's in Tiger and there may be some othre really interesting uses of this API as mentioned on the app's page. I for one would really like to be able to tell if somebody changed ANY files on my system without my knowledge. I think you can do that with Singh's program, but how do you make sure somebody cannot disable the program?"

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  1. Spotlight changed my life. by duffbeer703 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I used to be a lonely nerd, but thanks to Spotlight I can:

    - Run Faster
    - Jump Higher
    - Score with the chicks
    - Regrow lost hair!

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    1. Re:Spotlight changed my life. by zero_offset · · Score: 2, Funny

      Disclaimer: If any of these conditions persist for more than four hours, seek medical attention immediately.

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  2. Recursion by dangitman · · Score: 2, Funny
    Amit Singh has released a commandline app called FSLogger for looking under the hood of Tiger's Spotlight. You can watch all kinds of filesystem changes going on in realtime.

    So, this application would shine a spotlight on Spotlight? Is that anything like when you point a video camera at a monitor hooked up to the camera's output?

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  3. Re:Where's "As Seen on TV" ... by yanndug · · Score: 3, Funny

    Interesting. Steve Jobs is out of the office these days... http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0505itunes49.html

  4. Re:Two stories in 20 minutes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

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  5. Re:Where's "As Seen on TV" ... by Reaperducer · · Score: 2, Funny

    I really really really really really really hope that Steve Jobs has something better to do than read Slashdot. If not, then there's no hope for the rest of us.

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