Rich,
I would assume not. Since the underlying file system (most likely
FAT) would not support your custom attributes these calls should fail or
have undefined behavior. Perhaps you could store this extra attribute
data in a file?
Stuart
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:32:02PM -0400, Richard Coutts wrote:
> I'm wondering if I can use VFSFileGet(Set)Attributes to set my own custom
> flag for a file. The attributes is a 32-bit number, but the OS only seems
> to be using the lowest 8-bits or so and the rest are undefined (according to
> the "File and Directory Attributes" list). It seems like a dangerous thing
> to do, esp. since future OS versions may be using them, but if someone knows
> otherwise, it would make a section of code I'm writing *much* simpler. I
> only need one flag. Since the lowest bits are the ones defined, I'd imagine
> I'd use the highest most bit.
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>
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