What Is Prebinding?

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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
What does prebinding do? How does it relate, if at all, to fixing permissions?

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  • Reply 1 of 5
    Prebinding is a way of linking applications and libraries. By keeping them up to date, you'll have faster application launch times.



    Permissions are, for the most part, wholly unrelated to prebinding.
  • Reply 2 of 5
    mcsjgsmcsjgs Posts: 244member
    Thank you for clearing that up.
  • Reply 3 of 5
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Brad

    Prebinding is a way of linking applications and libraries. By keeping them up to date, you'll have faster application launch times.



    Permissions are, for the most part, wholly unrelated to prebinding.




    Is there a way to manually prebind the aplications to the libraries? Or is ti done for you when the OS install runs the installer script?
  • Reply 4 of 5
    wmfwmf Posts: 1,164member
    There is the update_prebinding command.



    I think whenever you see the installer "optimizing", it's prebinding.
  • Reply 5 of 5
    Quote:

    Originally posted by ucaboys

    Or is ti done for you when the OS install runs the installer script?



    Since 10.2, that isn't even necessary. Here's an explanation.



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    Under 10.2, prebinding information is automatically updated as a normal part of system operation. There is no need to ever manually update prebinding information.



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    Under 10.2, the system automatically updates prebinding information any time an application is launched that lacks complete prebinding information. This happens automatically and in the background.



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