Re: How to know if a file has been opened before?
Re: How to know if a file has been opened before?
- Subject: Re: How to know if a file has been opened before?
- From: Michael Hall <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:05:57 -0500
On Jun 4, 2012, at 9:00 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote:
> On 4 Jun 2012, at 8:53 PM, Michael Hall wrote:
>
>> I was recently looking at some old finder api's. and some of it involves fields that are pretty much obsolete.
>> I was trying to figure out which flag bit setting corresponded to the locked checkbox in File>Get Info. At first I thought it was the name locked flag in finder flags. It turned out insted to be the node locked setting of a different flag. Name locked apparently had something to do with files in the old classic System folders.
>> Assuming this bit is now never set, and not contents unpredictable, you could abscond with it as a user field associated with every file on the machine. Set it to mean whatever you want until someone else has the same idea.
>
> Um. This is satire, right?
>
> — F
>
Well, probably not the best idea really. But similar fields used to actually be used sometime back in real coding. At least on machines I worked with way back. The OS even provided them.
Probably why it occurred to me.
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