Re: Querying system-wide base for file size calculation (base-2 vs base-10)
Re: Querying system-wide base for file size calculation (base-2 vs base-10)
- Subject: Re: Querying system-wide base for file size calculation (base-2 vs base-10)
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:16:40 -0800
On Nov 23, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Oleg Krupnov wrote:
> Yes, I checked the source code of switchDiskSizeBase, and as far as I
> can see, the guy is using some low-level hack, like opening a system
> framework binary, uncompress it, find some bytes at certain magic
> offset, read and rewrite them. This kind of thing isn't acceptable for
> my app, I'm looking for some legitimate ways, some public APIs.
I can only assume that if the author did it that way, it means there aren’t any APIs for it. Sounds like the Finder and Disk Utility are hardcoded to behave a certain way and this tool just hacks their code to change the behavior.
—Jens
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