From: Jay Soffian Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:13:24 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-web--browse: improve browser support under OS X Message-ID: <76718490802131613h713be217s51ff85a0714df5ff@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Feb 13, 2008 5:46 PM, Pieter de Bie wrote: > When I SSH to my mac, the SECURITYSESSIONID variable isn't set, but > open will succeed in displaying the page. > > Not sure if that is a valid concern though; how often would you do a > remote login to your mac to display a webpage? That is quite odd, but I've confirmed it under 10.5.2. In 10.5 I can ssh to another Mac and /usr/bin/open a document. If I have a GUI login already established on that Mac, I can see (via screen sharing) the application is launched and the document handled. But here's the odd part -- if I *don't* have a GUI login on that Mac, the application for the document is *still* launched, but I guess it's running in some sort of headless mode. I don't recall 10.4 operating this way. But this is neither here nor there. AFAIK, SECURITYSESSIONID is unique to OS X and it reliably indicates that the user is sitting in front of the OS X GUI. j.