Re: Standard OS X Compression format
Re: Standard OS X Compression format
- Subject: Re: Standard OS X Compression format
- From: Marcel Weiher <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 15:31:42 +0100
On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 02:56 PM, John C. Randolph wrote:
(forgot to cc the list first time around)
On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 03:12 AM, Marcel Weiher wrote:
One could of course, simply flatten forked files for tar the same way
they get flattened for storage on an FFS filesystem. So, in your tar
file, if you tarred up "foo", you'd get "foo" and "._foo".
That has exactly the problem I outlined: what if you have both a file
named "foo" and one named "._foo" in your current directory?
I think this is a perfect example of:
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple,
and wrong." -- H L Mencken
;-)
Using <data-file>/rsrc is safe because that is a path that can simply
not happen on a non-forked file-system.
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