I like a good jaunt with IDApro as much as the next RE, but my question is what does ASIF do that Qcow2 doesn't?
My other question is why does it take so long to copy an app out of a dmg and into /Applications. Like, just change some pointers to pointers to data on disk and shit.
Worth noting ASIF's compression tradeoff also affects Spotlight indexing —
since the content is opaque until mounted, you lose searchability on
unmounted disk images that you'd get with a regular folder structure.
I have to admit that using C syntax as a string to parse something from Python is definitely a choice. I'm not even sure I would use C structs to lay things out in C…
Small self-advertisement: as an alternative to dissect.cstruct, a fun side-project of mine (C parser + C interpreter in Python) can do a very similar thing:
Speaking of images (media file), I found out that iCloud double-counts storage space for rotated photos, so I need to subscribe to a higher tier just because the iPhone often can't get orientation right, especially for food photos.
Would be nice if they moved to storing diff sidecars.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 28.9 ms ] threadMy other question is why does it take so long to copy an app out of a dmg and into /Applications. Like, just change some pointers to pointers to data on disk and shit.
https://github.com/albertz/PyCParser/blob/master/demos/disse...
Would be nice if they moved to storing diff sidecars.