Re: iDisk access in Cocoa
Re: iDisk access in Cocoa
- Subject: Re: iDisk access in Cocoa
- From: M Ramachandra Acharya <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:35:48 +0530
Hi Vince
It works just great! It does return the 'webdev' format type. Also I found
that in another field it give the mounted from address and here it writes
"idisk.apple.com/iDiskName".
Thanks and best regards
Ram
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From: Vince DeMarco <email@hidden>
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Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:59:53 -0800
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To: M Ramachandra Acharya <email@hidden>
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Cc: email@hidden
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Subject: Re: iDisk access in Cocoa
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On Tuesday, February 19, 2002, at 01:59 AM, M Ramachandra Acharya wrote:
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> Hi Vince
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>>> But when I use finder and check the properties of the volume by
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>>> selecting
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>>> it
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>>> and pressing 'Command + I', the info widow says that the 'Format' is
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>>> 'WebDAV'. I thought of using this as the unique key, but alas! could not
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>>> find any function to get this info.
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>> What you can do is use the fstat function
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>> ib the structure it returns is the file sysyem type.
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> I just tried this. I use the function 'fstat' defined in 'stat.h'.
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> It fills in a structure which has lot many fields defined (struct stat).
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> To me it appeared that I can use the "st_ino" field of this structure. It
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> is
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> the inode's number for the file. After doing some tests, I found that for
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> iDisk, it remains 3 and for any other volumes (local, network, CD ROM,
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> volumes mounted from my laptop in FireWire mode) it remains 2.
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> Is this how I should be doing it or do you think I should treat the
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> structure in a different way. Actually I am not sure about this field. Can
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> you pl. point me to some documents which might explain these fields in
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Sorry i meant to say use statfs(path, struct statfs *buf)
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so do this
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struct stafs buf;
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if (statfs("/Volumes/MyDisk",&buf) < 0){
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perror("statfs failed");
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}
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then here look at
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buf.f_fstypename
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sorry about that, i've been kind of sick, so i typed the wrong thing for
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you.
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vince
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