Oh, duh, of course.  It must be the Finder trying to figure out what
kind if disk icon to display.  Thanks!


On Sep 2, 9:07 pm, Erik Larsson <[email protected]> wrote:
>   MacFUSE itself wouldn't look for such a file, it's just a file system
> bridge that acts on external requests.
> Mac OS X itself is likely to look for the file though, as it contains
> Mac OS X version information (you can see for yourself: 'cat
> /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist').
>
> My guess is that when the new file system is mounted, Mac OS X checks if
> it contains another Mac OS X installation so that it can treat it
> properly in the Finder or something. I'm sure there's a reason.
>
> Regards,
>
> - Erik
>
> Ron Garret wrote 2010-09-03 03.17:
>
>
>
> > I'm writing a FUSE filesystem and I have logmsgs set on every FUSE
> > callback.  I was surprised to see this when I mounted my filesystem
> > (called netfs):
>
> > Sep  2 18:09:01 mickey ./netfs[9491]: Called statfs
> > Sep  2 18:09:01 mickey ./netfs[9491]: Called access /System
> > Sep  2 18:09:01 mickey ./netfs[9491]: Called getattr /System/Library
> > Sep  2 18:09:01 mickey ./netfs[9491]: Called access /System/Library
> > Sep  2 18:09:01 mickey ./netfs[9491]: Called getattr /System/Library/
> > CoreServices
> > Sep  2 18:09:01 mickey ./netfs[9491]: Called access /System/Library/
> > CoreServices
> > Sep  2 18:09:01 mickey ./netfs[9491]: Called getattr /System/Library/
> > CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
> > Sep  2 18:09:01 mickey ./netfs[9491]: Called access /System/Library/
> > CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
> > Sep  2 18:09:01 mickey ./netfs[9491]: Called access /System/Library/
> > CoreServices
> > Sep  2 18:09:01 mickey ./netfs[9491]: Called open /System/Library/
> > CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
> > Sep  2 18:09:01 mickey ./netfs[9491]: Called access /System/Library/
> > CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
> > Sep  2 18:09:01 mickey ./netfs[9491]: Called open /System/Library/
> > CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist
>
> > Why would MacFuse try to access /System/Library/CoreServices/
> > SystemVersion.plist *via* the filesystem that it is mounting?  Why
> > would it even think that such a file might exist?  What would it do
> > with the file if it found it?
>
> > Thanks,
> > rg

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