site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Domainkey-signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=GBA5X6J7vKr0i4nCtNSelBdbglCxBrCiNKByEUBF/TQdLckpo6BaPeZhIu4hXEu16fX0lQEOcUE1bN5QkChm33PQFd5QsLrY105GuxoegdMezroxqb+EXAlt1dHrlKzT3K8bA8CJUb/Nidge6+p366CidAjNM+DGQmK8kR6R5IU= On 25/06/2006, at 8:05 AM, Tomas Zahradnicky wrote: Hello, -- Seeya...Q -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _____ / Quinton Dolan - qdolan@gmail.com __ __/ / / __/ / / / __ / _/ / / Gold Coast, QLD, Australia __/ __/ __/ ____/ / - / Ph: +61 419 729 806 _______ / _\ _______________________________________________ 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... I've noticed that tar is able to store files' metadata and in order to preserve it, it adds ._FILENAME file that appears to store FileInfo and file's resource fork if there's one. Anyone knows if this process is somewhere documented including the information it stores beyond the raw resource fork? Check out copyfile() included in the LibC library on tiger. The source file copyfile.c (in the LibC source bundle from ADC) will tell you everything you need to know about what's in those '._*' files. My app uses libtar and when I extract everything, I need to recombine ._files back into their owners. I have written something that appears to work but would like to be sure I restored everything I had to. If you are making a tiger only app you can just use copyfile() included in LibC, this is what the tiger unix tools like tar, cp, rsync, etc use. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com