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Re: Philosophy of FSRef - way
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Re: Philosophy of FSRef - way


  • Subject: Re: Philosophy of FSRef - way
  • From: "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 18:00:21 +0100

At 18:49 Uhr +0200 10.02.2005, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
On 2/10/05 6:26 PM, "M. Uli Kusterer" <email@hidden> wrote:

 You're aware that FSRefs are, strictly spoken, a Carbon technology,
 and thus you'll probably get much better answers about this on
 Carbon-Dev.

At 16:41 Uhr +0200 10.02.2005, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote:
 1) It looks very weird that I cannot create Fsref for non-existing object,
 Like we was able do this with FSSpec. What a great idea is behind of this?

The idea behind an FSRef is that it will stay valid even if your file is moved around or renamed (though not across restarts). Pathnames obviously don't work for this, and FSSpecs encode the parent directory's ID, and thus only stay valid if the folder *containing* your file is moved, but not if you take a file out of its folder.

I wonder where from you have get this info? :-)

In the Developer/Docs folder I have not see such texts

Sorry, it's been a few years since I've done any serious Carbon development. Most of my work these days is Cocoa. I don't really remember where I read this. I'd guess somewhere in incremental update docs when CarbonLib came out, or maybe on Carbon-Dev.
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