Re: Finder alias vs ln -s
Re: Finder alias vs ln -s
- Subject: Re: Finder alias vs ln -s
- From: Jonas Maebe <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 12:15:44 +0200
On 19 aug 2004, at 11:39, Denis Mottet wrote:
I discovered that I cannot "follow" aliases made with OSX Finder when
using X11 applications...
Obviously, Finder aliases are not recognised as symlinks in unix X11
or terminal context.
That's because they aren't symlinks, they work quite differently (e.g.,
they can still find the document they point to after that document has
been moved to somewhere else). They are just regular files.
Has anyone a workaround ?
If you want symlinks instead of aliases, you have to make them on the
command line. Afaik there is no way to have the Finder make symlinks.
Supporting aliases in standard unix tools would require changing them
to use native Mac OS X api's instead of standard unix api's (after all,
it's perfectly possible that you want to open the alias file itself for
reading).
Jonas
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