


All further X11 processes are child processes to it and inherit the Full Disk Access right. The first line reads ?#!/bin/bash?, so eventually /bin/bash is executed upon opening (double-clicking) XQuartz. The command ?file /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11? returns ?/Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11: Bourne-Again shell script text executable, ASCII text?, so X11 is actually not a binary but a shell script. Under the key CFBundleExecutable you will find the value X11 which is /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/MacOS/X11. Why? Well, assuming the standard location for XQuartz, look at /Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app/Contents/ist. Indeed giving Full Disk Access to /bin/bash is the correct solution. Burkhard Schmidt from Max-Planck-Institut provided an insightful explanation But it is certainly true that I can toggle whether "ls ~/Documents" works by checking/unchecking bash in the Full Disk Access panel.ĭr. I'm not sure whether bash is involved because my tcsh is a descendant of a bash process, or because the ls command is using bash in some way. This is a bit counter-intuitive, since I actually use /bin/tcsh for my shell (yeah, I know, I'm a luddite). Solution was to give "Full Disk Access" to /bin/bash. However if you try the same commands in the Terminal all works fine.

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