site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Glenn. _______________________________________________ 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... At 2:53 pm -0700 20/10/2009, Keith Stattenfield wrote: We at Apple reserved ".alias" as an extension for aliases, although at current we don't add this to newly created extensions nor require it to be on them. However, in the future we may, and in order for older system to read aliases created on these newer systems FSIsAliasFile() will attempt to read alias data from such files even if they don't have the isAlias bit set in Finder info. Ha, good one, you almost had me there. If Apple had reserved the .alias extension for alias files (as much as Apple can reserve a file extension) then it would be there as a file extension for kUTTypeAliasFile in the UTI APIs. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com