Re: Unified Carbon interface for extended attributes?
Re: Unified Carbon interface for extended attributes?
- Subject: Re: Unified Carbon interface for extended attributes?
- From: Quinn <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:11:33 +0000
At 8:46 -0700 19/2/08, James Bucanek wrote:
Sadly, this just isn't the case. There's a definite schism between
the File Manager APIs and the BSD APis. Launch services, some
metadata, icons, traditional file type/creator, creation dates, etc.
all need FSRefs. Now it looks like extended attributes can only be
accessed via BSD (as are other problems like identifying and
recreating hard links).
Indeed. Internally the File Manager has private APIs for extended
attributes. I could've sworn there was a bug on file to get a public
API, but I couldn't find one. So I filed it as:
<rdar://problem/5754191> Public API for extended attributes
We /do/ have a bug on file for the hard link stuff <rdar://problem/5275723>.
Alas, I can't offer any predictions as to when these might be addressed.
S+E
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Quinn "The Eskimo!" <http://www.apple.com/developer/>
Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware
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