Re: Say "What?"
Re: Say "What?"
- Subject: Re: Say "What?"
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 16:17:49 -0700
At 23:53 +0100 1/4/10, Axel Luttgens wrote:
>- the alias resolution algorithm, never fully disclosed but being said to rely on various pieces of information for tracking the target file (among those pieces, there's indeed the target file's name)
While "desperately seeking system 7" at a developer's conference we were told that an essential part of an alias would be the change to the HFS disk directory system that would use a 32 bit unique number - FileID - for files as well as directories. The value was large enough that it would never be repeated before a disk or partition failed.
The big deal was that the alias would point to the original file even if the user changed its name.
With the introduction of hard and symbolic links which are pretty well defined isn't it time that Apple told us exactly what an alias resource is? For files that are not on a mounted disk FileID is not enough but on the system disk an Apple alias ought to be as permanent as a UNIX hard link.
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