On 2006-07-01 21:21, Sherm Pendley said:
>> Also, I'm but confused by Sherm Pendley's mention of link and
>> unlink. I think he's assuming it is correct but needs a tortured
>> interpretation in order to reconcile it with our notion of what
>> should happen. Anyway, he's right that no copies are made.
>
>That was essentially my assumption, yes - I'd assumed that the docs
>were in some way correct, but written very badly, in a way that's
>easy to misinterpret. It hadn't occurred to me that they might be
>flat-out wrong - and I apologize to John Stiles for doubting him when
>he pointed out that they are.
I think with all this discussion of hardlinks and link and unlink, we
have overlooked the simple fact that Cocoa lacks an API to rename
files! Yes, yes, movePath:toPath:handler: can be used, but if you look
at its docs (which we've been over carefully now) you'll see the word
'rename' appears nowhere. And if one is not familiar with the (bizarre)
unix concept of 'moving' a file to rename it, then it's not at all clear
that this API can be used. And if you search the Cocoa docs and even
the Cocoa headers for 'rename' you come up pretty dry. This is quite
discouraging.
The CoreServices File Manager, on the other hand, has a very
straightforward API: FSRenameUnicode().
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Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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