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Inspect contents of a basic, unencrypted UDIF DMG file

If I mount the DMG file using system calls to hdiutil and my application quits unexpectedly, the DMG remains mounted but because I mount it privately with -nobrowse, it doesn't show up in Finder. Is there a way to mount it using some framework or API that will be smart enough to unmount if my application unexpectedly quits?

Basically, I'm looking for a way to be able to read from files within a DMG without having to mount it.

Solution

  • You could use libdmg to directly read the dmg rather than mounting it....though it's obviously unsupported.