Re: NSFileManager and Resource Forks
Re: NSFileManager and Resource Forks
- Subject: Re: NSFileManager and Resource Forks
- From: "Sean McBride" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:45:58 -0400
- Organization: Rogue Research Inc.
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:08:04 +0200, Jean-Daniel Dupas said:
>No, you don't need the Carbon rsrc manager, you need the CoreServices
>File Manager, which is available to 64 bits app and AFAIK, the only
>supported way to save resource forks.
>Apple even recommends against using ..namedfork. If you want to access
>it at BSD level, that last recommendation i saw was to use xattr (http://
>lists.apple.com/archives/unix-porting/2007/Oct/msg00018.html)
>
>Use FSOpenFork passing the name obtained with FSGetResourceForkName as
>argument to open the rsrc stream of the file, and then, use FSWriteFork
>() to write your data.
And in a Cocoa context, I recommend Nathan Day's Obj-C wrapper NDResourceFork:
<http://github.com/nathanday/ndalias/blob/master/Classes/NDResourceFork.h>
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Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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