Re: Resource Fork as Extended Attributes
Re: Resource Fork as Extended Attributes
- Subject: Re: Resource Fork as Extended Attributes
- From: Toby Thain <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:10:37 -0400
On 15-Jul-09, at 9:00 PM, shailesh jain wrote: TN1150 says following:
"HFS Plus has an attribute file, another B-tree, that can be used to store additional information for a file or directory. ...
Does that mean HFS+ now supports arbitrary number of forks rather that just 'data fork + resource fork' ? And arbitrary number of forks can be accessed by getxattr and friends ?
Has done for quite some time. HFS+ shipped with MacOS 8.1 - in 1998.
--Toby
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Anton Altaparmakov <email@hidden> wrote: Hi, On 15 Jul 2009, at 03:46, shailesh jain wrote: Are resource forks and finder metadata stored as Extended attributes on OS X 10.4+ ?.
Depends on which file system you are talking about but even on HFS+ you can access the resource fork both via the extended attribute interface and via the named stream interface.
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