Re: Aliases & fileAttributesAtPath:
Re: Aliases & fileAttributesAtPath:
- Subject: Re: Aliases & fileAttributesAtPath:
- From: Mike Shields <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 02:08:50 -0600
On Friday, October 12, 2001, at 01:27 AM, John C. Randolph wrote:
I think you'll have to resort to Carbon calls to find out if a given
path has an alias. Aliases are very much like UFS hard links; they
don't break if the file they point to is moved or renamed.
They don't even break if the file is MOVED (Most of the time that is).
Aliases are pretty cool things on an HFS(+) volume. Because of the
information they store, you can pretty much be guaranteed of finding the
original file if it still exists.
Mike