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Re: Unified Carbon interface for extended attributes?
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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/>
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