Author: Justin Pot / Source: howtogeek.com
You noticed something called “sandboxd” while looking through Activity Monitor, and now you’re here. So what is this thing?
This article is part of our ongoing series explaining various processes found in Activity Monitor, like kernel_task, hidd, mdsworker, installd, WindowServer, blued, launchd, backup, opendirectoryd, powerd, coreauthd, configd, mdnsresponder, UserEventAgent, nsurlstoraged, commerce, parentalcontrold, and many others. Don’t know what those services are?
Better start reading!Today’s process, sandboxd, is a daemon, which means it runs a system task in the background on macOS—daemons generally have a “d” at the end of their name. This particular daemon handles the macOS sandbox, as running man sandboxd in your Terminal will show you:
sandboxd performs services on behalf of the Sandbox kernel extension.
So what’s a sandbox?…
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