Oh, and for the record: I fixed one bug related to this extra prompting on May 19th (commit 5751ebe530), so if you have a version from before that, it may be better for you if you upgrade. There is still another bug somewhere, tho.
Robby On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Justin R. Slepak <[email protected]> wrote: > I see this prompt pretty frequently, and I've never explicitly touched xattr. > I don't know if it's due to xattr being altered by something in the > background, but it does seem to happen a lot. > > --- > Justin Slepak > PhD student, Computer Science dept. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Spencer Florence <[email protected]> > To: racket <[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:43:39 -0400 (EDT) > Subject: [racket] DrRacket, OSX, and xattr > > Hi all, > > Whenever I save a file with DrRacket on OSX, it always sets some extended > attributes on the file. Specifically it sets: > > [snips:pl7/examples] xattr -l somefile.rkt > com.apple.FinderInfo: > 00000000 54 45 58 54 44 72 53 63 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > |TEXTDrSc........| > 00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > |................| > 00000020 > > In addition if I clear the xattr's (via xattr -c) DrRacket treats this as > an external write to the file and prompts me to overwrite on save and > revert on run. Is this behavior intended? It seems odd given that DrRacket > doesn't do this with normal attributes (permission, suid bit, etc.) If it > is intended what is the rational and can I disable it? > > --Spencer > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
