Re: Aliases & fileAttributesAtPath:
Re: Aliases & fileAttributesAtPath:
- Subject: Re: Aliases & fileAttributesAtPath:
- From: Markus Hitter <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:37:22 +0200
Am Freitag, 12. Oktober 2001 um 09:27 schrieb John C. Randolph:
Aliases are very much like UFS hard links;
No. Aliases are regular files from the filesystem's point of
view. Empty data fork, about 50k of resource fork. Unlike links,
they are useful only if the App takes care to resolve the Alias.
UFS hard links are like a second name for the same file. Both
have the same inode, you can't distinguish between the
"original" and the "copy".
they don't break if the file they point to is moved or renamed.
Because Carbon / the Finder has more than one mechanism built in
to resolve the link to the missing target file.
Markus
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