> On Nov 3, 2015, at 12:19 AM, Quinn The Eskimo! <eski...@apple.com> wrote: > > > On 2 Nov 2015, at 19:59, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > >> Now, FSRefs aren’t paths but they also have the property that they work even >> when a directory is moved. I dimly remember from the early days of OS X that >> there was a form of path used internally by FSRefs, something like >> “/.volfs/dirid” where ‘dirid’ is the numeric HFS directory ID. Does this >> still work? > > The underlying infrastructure is still there but it doesn't work in exactly > the same way and thus is not going to be useful to you (and it was never > documented as API anyway, so using it in your app would be a mistake).
As of El Capitan (OSX 10.11), Carbon framework code no longer uses volfs paths. I don't know if that support has been removed from the kernel but I know that was the plan. Don't use volFS paths. > >> Is there any way to create an alternative path to a directory, that will >> remain valid even if the directory is moved? > > If you chdir into the directory than relative paths will be evaluated > relative to that directory. The problem, obviously, is making sure that the > chdir is in place every time you call the library. > > There is a per-thread current working directory facility (__pthread_chdir), > which might help with the above, but it's not public API )-: > > You could modify the library to use <x-man-page://2/openat> and friends. > > Share and Enjoy > -- > Quinn "The Eskimo!" <http://www.apple.com/developer/> > Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware > > > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Filesystem-dev mailing list (Filesystem-dev@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/filesystem-dev/luther.j%40apple.com > > This email sent to luthe...@apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Filesystem-dev mailing list (Filesystem-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/filesystem-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
