On Jan 1, 2008, at 4:42 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

>
> On 2 Jan 2008, at 1:35 AM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> What do you mean it doesn't work? It retruns an error? Or does it
>>> return the symlink? And what do you mean with work? Dp you mean that
>>> an alias pointing to an alias file resolves to the target of the
>>> alias file?
>>
>> Ignore that; it does work (alias file pointing to alias file resolves
>> to target, and alias file pointing to symlink resolves to target).
>>
>> -- 
>> adam
>
> I would then say that it doesn't work, because it makes it impossible
> to store an alias pointing to an alias (or symlink) if we want to.

I was referring to getting the content of the file for the FVIcon.  On  
the BibDesk side, yeah, that's a problem, but maybe it could be  
resolved by passing FALSE for resolveAliasChains in FSResolveAliasFile?

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