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: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:26:31 -0400
On 15-Jul-09, at 10:28 PM, Chris Suter wrote:
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.
Looking deeper, I find the API for named forks has been available
since 9.0 but eventually I found the apparently undocumented
restriction that it only works with the 2 'standard' forks, at least
until recently.
--T
Kind regards,
Chris
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