On Jan 1, 2008, at 1:02 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > On 1 Jan 2008, at 9:43 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > >> On Jan 1, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: >> >>> Ho should we actually handle symlinks in linked files? Currently we >>> resolve those., I'm not sure if that's correct. It's inconsistent >>> with aliases. >> >> After your last message, I've been wondering the same thing myself. >> Right now I'm not sure we're consistent even with aliases. IIRC we >> were resolving aliases for icons which was probably wrong. > > No, only in the parent (if I understand you correctly).
I was thinking of -[BibItem imageForURLField:] which resolves aliases to see if a file is missing. If an alias file exists, it's not really missing...but it's useless unless the target exists. >> I think >> the NSWorkspace UTI resolution method shouldn't resolve aliases by >> default, either, but there was probably some reason for doing it that >> way. Maybe for sorting URLs. >> >> I guess the question is what we should move, the link (symlink or >> alias) or the target file? I suppose moving the link is the correct >> thing to do. >> > > That's the way we implemented BDSKFiler. > >>> This applies both to whether the linked file is a >>> symlink or the document. Though perhaps the document URL is always >>> resolved? Also I'm not sure whether aliases resolve symlinks or >>> could >>> keep aliases to a symlink. Certainly not resolving symlinks means we >>> can't use BDAlias, as it uses the wrong methods to create FSRefs. >> >> It looks like an alias to a symlink works in Finder, although that's >> kind of gross. > > > For what it's worth, the document's URL is also always resolved. I > don't know about aliases pointing to symlinks or aliases, is that > possible? For FSRef we need to use FSPathMakeRefWithOptions to get an > FSRef to pointing to a symlink (instead of CFURLGetFSRef). I think everything we get from Cocoa is guaranteed to be resolved (from NSOpenPanel/NSSavePanel or NSDocument). The alias pointing to a symlink probably needs to be resolved recursively (FSResolveAliasFileWithMountFlags doesn't seem to work), but aliases pointing to aliases appear to work. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-develop mailing list Bibdesk-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop
