10.11 Disk Utility SIP Status is Confusing

Originator:jon
Number:rdar://22983695 Date Originated:05-Oct-2015 06:48 PM
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:OS X Product Version:10.11 (15A284)
Classification:UI/Usability Reproducible:Always
 
Summary:
The "System Integrity Protection enabled" item in the Disk utility.app Get Info window dialog is confusing. For example, it will say "System Integrity Protection enabled" is set to "Yes" when SIP is disabled. This does not make sense. This is too ambiguous.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Disk Utility.app
2. Open the Info window of a drive
3. Look at the System Integrity Protection enabled field.

Expected Results:
I expect this to reflect the actual state of SIP. OR I expect a second field to clarify the actual state of SIP and this field to indicate whether the drive supports SIP or not. However, given SIP is a kernel-level implementation, I do not know how a disk could not be SIP enabled.

Actual Results:
System Integrity Protection enabled is always set to "Yes" even if SIP is actually disabled.

Version:
10.11 (15A284)

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