NSString stringByAbbreviatingWithTildeInPath should be permissible in sandbox

Originator:jon
Number:rdar://19716583 Date Originated:2/4/15
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:OS X SDK Product Version:
Classification:Other Bug Reproducible:Always
 
My app is a tool specifically for copying the file path of selected items in the Finder. It then performs various transformations on that path. One of the options is to replace /Users/username with ~. To accomplish this, I rely on the above call. When the app was sandboxed, this feature suddenly stopped working, because stringByAbbreviatingWithTildeInPath always returns the original string with no replacements.

I don't see a security risk here, and it is currently possible to get the home directory through other means (getpwuid), so I don't see why this call is not permissible. 

Can you please allow this to work in a sandbox?

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