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Re: Vexing POSIX file issue
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Re: Vexing POSIX file issue


  • Subject: Re: Vexing POSIX file issue
  • From: Loren Ryter <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:10:02 -0400
  • Thread-topic: Vexing POSIX file issue

Hi Yvan,

Not entirely sure what you mean by "auxiliary" volume here.  "David" is the
name of the user's account on another Mac, and it is mounted as a share on
the local Mac as a volume.  I expect it to be treated as a volume.  It is on
my configuration whether mounting a 10.5.2 user volume on 10.4.11 or vice
versa.

> because the given path is wrongly formed, it would be "/David/
> Documents/Devonthink Dbase/David's DEVONthink Database.dtBase"

Not sure what this is either...  In no case would you see /David/...

What you would see in UNIX was:

/Volumes/David/....

In HFS it should be

David:...

The problem is the path as given (Starting with local startup disk name
("Macintosh HD") cannot be coerced to an alias.

Thanks.





On 3/13/08 12:08 PM, "KOENIG Yvan" <email@hidden> wrote:

>
> Le 13 mars 2008 à 16:39, Loren Ryter a écrit :
>
>> /Volumes/David/Documents/Devonthink Dbase/David's DEVONthink
>> Database.dtBase
>
>
> If I remember well the pathname starts with /Volumes/ when the file
> is NOT stored on the boot volume.
>
> If David is the name of an "auxiliary" volume.
> posix file of "/Volumes/David/Documents/Devonthink Dbase/David's
> DEVONthink Database.dtBase"
>
> will return "David:Documents:Devonthink Dbase:David's DEVONthink
> Database.dtBase"
>
> but, if David is the name of the user's account, it will return:
>
> "Macintosh HD:Volumes:David:Documents:Devonthink Dbase:David's
> DEVONthink Database.dtBase"
> because the given path is wrongly formed, it would be "/David/
> Documents/Devonthink Dbase/David's DEVONthink Database.dtBase"
>
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