What Is Prebinding?

mcsjgs

What does prebinding do? How does it relate, if at all, to fixing permissions?

ghost_user_name

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.

mcsjgs

Thank you for clearing that up.

ucaboys

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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?

wmf

There is the update_prebinding command.



I think whenever you see the installer "optimizing", it's prebinding.

ghost_user_name

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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.