On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Luther Fuller <email@hidden> wrote:
> I found that these are always in posix format.
> Is there a good reason for this?
AFAIK, POSIX format is the native pathname format of OS X., and the
only one understood by operating system calls. So all the APIs that
use HFS paths have to translate them to and from POSIX; storing them
in POSIX in the first place avoids that translation step.
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Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
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