Re: FSCopyObjectAsync: useless and crippled
Re: FSCopyObjectAsync: useless and crippled
- Subject: Re: FSCopyObjectAsync: useless and crippled
- From: "John C. Daub" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 05:56:05 -0500
on 5/14/05 6:47 PM, Mark Munz (DevList) at email@hidden wrote:
>> Steve Gehrman wrote on Friday, May 13, 2005:
>
>> What you are proposing is to break down the security of the system
>> for your convenience. This is, admittedly, a persistent problem in
>> the entire system. "Secure" and "user-friendly" are two properties
>> that are often mutually exclusive. But I don't see that it's
>> appropriate to ask an FS... level API to start second guessing the
>> need to authenticate to make a copy of a file the user shouldn't,
>> by rights, have any access too.
>
> I would like to see Apple provide an 90% solution for copying files.
> Don't make it a low level call, make it more of upper level call,
> sort of like NSWorkspace.
>
>> No, there's a third solution which is very common. Someone, often
>> Apple, can write a library or sample application code which does
>> all of the dirty work for you. You can incorporate, modify, and
>> customize this code as needed. Because, often, it requires
>> customizing simply because these are not simple problems with one-
>> size-fits-all solutions.
>
> I never liked this approach mainly because I think Apple should be
> solving this problem for 90% of the people with an appropriate API,
> and THEN providing customized solutions for the other 10%. Instead,
> every app has to include this code (most of the time it is probably
> included unchanged).
<http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/FSCopyObject/FSCopyObject.html>
Does this not suffice?
--
John C. Daub }:-)>=
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