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Comment by Nicholas Riley: ¶
QuickDraw was not ported to be 64-bit clean, so I imagine this gets launched in 64-bit Cocoa when you try to render a PICT.
QTKit does something similar to run 32-bit codecs in an external process.
Comment by ssp: ¶
That sounds like a very good explanation, thanks. I’ll try to keep an eye on which app might need this. I.e. which apps except httpd and iScrobbler actually are 64bit.
Comment by ssp: ¶
I am starting to be fairly sure that iScrobbler launched the pictd thingy. When hovering over its icon in the menu bar the process seems to be launched. I think iScrobbler is supposed to show album cover art when doing that (doesn’t work for me though).
Thinning the binary with lipo to remove the x86_64 architecture (what would be the benefit of having a 64bit binary for such a small utility anyway?) avoids launching of pictd. (I still don’t see any images appearing, but perhaps that’s just some sort of other bug.)
