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Re: Resource Fork as Extended Attributes
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Re: Resource Fork as Extended Attributes


  • Subject: Re: Resource Fork as Extended Attributes
  • From: Chris Suter <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:28:33 +1000

Hi Toby,

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Toby Thain<email@hidden> wrote:

> > 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.

If by “quite some time”, you mean since 10.4 and with limitations,
you’re right. However, they’ve certainly not been supported since Mac
OS 8.1.

Kind regards,

Chris
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