Re: NSFileManager and aliases
Re: NSFileManager and aliases
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 05:15:16PM -0500, Erik M. Buck wrote:
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- Aliases do not work across volumes but symlinks do.
Nope.
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- Symlinks work well in network environments with multiple network volumes.
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For example, a sys-admin can install an update of an application and every
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user's symlinks automatically point to the update. With aliases, this is not
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so easy. The admin may have to log into every users machine to update
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aliases and the admin may not even know all the aliases that users have
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created.
Nope. Aliases include multiple methods of resolution, one of which
is usually the path. I've maintained this exact method in an all-Mac
network at one point, and as long as I maintained the path to the
application, aliases did not break.
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- Aliases work well on a local machine with one hard disk. They let users
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configure their machine the way they want it without fear of breaking
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things. This was the traditional Mac configuration. Aliases are a power to
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the users feature. In the modern networked world, aliases are a new ring of
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hell for administrators.
Sorry, no. Aliases can (and did, prior to Mac OS X) incorporate
AppleShare server login information, even Apple Remote Access
connection information, so you could make an alias to a file on a
remote machine accessible only by a modem connection and you could
watch ARA dial up, then AppleShare connect to the server.
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=Nicholas Riley <email@hidden> | <
http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>
Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and
Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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