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Whatever symbols are found in the public header files in the /System/Library/Frameworks. Iirc, there are tools which look at a binary's used symbols and compare them to those headers.

rdevnull6y ago

exactly. Apparently Apple just started now to check against these private APIs.

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saagarjha6y ago· 3 in thread

Of course you can! How do you think Apple's checking your binaries?

megousOP6y ago

Using some internal tool.

justinclift6y ago

The internal tool is very likely using/parsing otool / ldd output and similar. eg cli tooling that comes with macOS itself

saagarjha6y ago

No, it’s almost certainly just a search for strings and looking through the symbol table.

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plorkyeran6y ago· 2 in thread

You can, and the rejection email even provides instructions for how to do so.

megousOP6y ago

And where will you get the current list of all forbidden functions/APIs, not just those for this specific case with Electron?

LeoNatan256y ago

Whatever symbols are found in the public header files in the /System/Library/Frameworks. Iirc, there are tools which look at a binary's used symbols and compare them to those headers.

rdevnull6y ago

exactly. Apparently Apple just started now to check against these private APIs.

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