site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com I get the same results - FSIsAliasFile says it's an alias when it's just a regular file (so of course FSResolveAliasFile fails to resolve it). paulm On 20/10/2009, at 11:50 PM, rohan a wrote: Hi, I get the same # file /usr/lib/charset.alias /usr/lib/charset.alias: ASCII text But still FSIsAliasFile() identifies it as an alias. On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Juan Manuel Palacios <jmpalaciosp@eml.cc> wrote: On Oct 20, 2009, at 4:45 AM, rohan a wrote: Hello All, $[jmpp @jmpp: ~](8/0,0) -> sw_vers ProductName: Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.5.8 BuildVersion: 9L31a $[jmpp @jmpp: ~](9/0,0) -> file /usr/lib/charset.alias /usr/lib/charset.alias: ASCII text Regards,... - jmpp Below is the code : #include<stdio.h> #include "/Developer/Headers/FlatCarbon/Aliases.h" int main(int argc,char *argv[]) { FSRef fileRef; Boolean aliasFileFlag, folderFlag,targetIsFolder,wasAliased; FSRef theRef; char path[255]; int i=0; int x; if(targetIsFolder == TRUE) printf("Target is Directory\n"); else printf("Target is file\n"); FSRefMakePath(&theRef,path,255); printf("\"%s\" points to \"%s\"\n",argv[1],path); return 0; } This code works for all other files. What might be the issue ? /Developer/Tools/GetFileInfo /usr/lib/charset.alias file: "/usr/lib/charset.alias" type: "" creator: "" attributes: avbstclinmedz created: 04/01/1976 15:30:38 modified: 01/30/2006 13:41:33 _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... It seems that all regular files that have an .alias extension are reported as an alias when clearly, they are not. You'll just have to take that into account in your code. The file /usr/lib/charset.alias is identified by FSIsAliasFile() as an alias file. However, when I try to resolve it using FSResolveAliasFile() it fails to resolve. In my system that's a regular file, although I haven't tried FSIsAliasFile() on it to see what info I'd get. Have you checked manually at the terminal level? I would guess file(1) confirming it's not an alias would indeed have a lot of bearing on being able to resolve it. FSPathMakeRef((UInt8 *)argv[1],&fileRef,NULL); FSPathMakeRef((UInt8 *)argv[1],&theRef,NULL); FSIsAliasFile(&fileRef, &aliasFileFlag, &folderFlag); if(aliasFileFlag == TRUE) printf("Alias file\n"); else { if(folderFlag == 1) printf("Folder\n"); else printf("File\n"); return 0; } x = FSResolveAliasFile(&theRef,TRUE,&targetIsFolder,&wasAliased); if (x) printf("failed\n"); The output of GetFileInfo does not indicate that the file is an alias. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com