Re: TextEdit vs SimpleText: keeping track of open files
Re: TextEdit vs SimpleText: keeping track of open files
- Subject: Re: TextEdit vs SimpleText: keeping track of open files
- From: Robert Lee Dotson <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 14:20:13 -0700
Personally, I think Apple's current way is the only way to make this
whole thing work. Keeping track of a file via an alias would only work
if one is moving a file around on the same volume, AND that volume is
HFS(+) or AFP. What if I've created (or opened) the file on an NFS
volume? Or created a file on an HFS volume and dragged it to a directory
which actually resides on an NFS union (or UFS, or AFS) mount? The alias
is broken, the file is gone, and I end up saving into the ether. Plus if
I do a 'revert to saved' on a file that I've moved, I'll get a 'file not
found' or more likely, a crash. Folks working in OSX now have a plethora
of file systems to work from, all at the same time. As developers, we
must concede that our users might have systems that are very different
from our own.
IHMO, the only way I can see this being fixed, is to change the file
descriptor/inode/whatever at the darwin-vfs level for all file systems,
and fixing the alias technology to work across multiple volumes. Since
the Classic Mac OS had these problems (aliases breaking across multiple
volumes) for years, I won't hold my breath.
I think it would also be good to remember that 'this ain't yo momma's
OS' and start thinking of it as something new and not a re-hash of
something else.
-- Robert Lee Dotson
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