Thanks Charles!

-- Tito

On May 28, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Charles Srstka wrote:

> On May 28, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Tito Ciuro wrote:
> 
>> The old statement traverses the link:
>> 
>>      NSDictionary* attr = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] 
>> fileAttributesAtPath:file traverseLink:YES];
>> 
>> The problem is that the header states that 'attributesOfItemAtPath:error:' 
>> that it's a replacement for 'fileAttributesAtPath:traverseLink:', but 
>> provides no provision for traversing the link.
>> 
>> How would I obtain the attributes of an item that needs to be traversed 
>> first?
> 
> You can easily traverse a link just by using [file 
> stringByResolvingSymlinksInPath] or [file stringByStandardizingPath] instead 
> of file. Where this gets tricky is if you *don’t* want to resolve the 
> symlink. Currently, the method doesn’t traverse symbolic links, but the 
> documentation claims that this behavior could change in a future version of 
> OS X, so if you need to guarantee that it won’t resolve, the only options are 
> either to use deprecated methods, or to use Carbon or BSD APIs.
> 
> Charles

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