site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On Oct 20, 2009, at 9:04 PM, rohan a wrote: This looks good. However, with a backup application, I would typically be using FSIsAliasFile() to identify an alias and then use FSResolveAliasFile() to resolve it. However,here the FSResolveAlias() file would fail causing issues. Need to deal separately with these cases -Keith _______________________________________________ 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... In general, you'd backup the contents of the alias file, not what it points to, because there's no guarantee that you can resolve the alias -- it might be to an item on a file server that isn't accessible, or to an un-mounted local disk, or to an item that you'd need a password from the user to resolve, or even be an alias to an item which has been deleted. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com