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Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support
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David Douthitt |
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Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support |
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Tue, 26 Aug 2003 17:44:53 -0500 |
Sorry for the delay...
On Friday, August 22, 2003, at 11:03 AM, David Botsch wrote:
Questions on your proposal...
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:08:03 -0400, David Douthitt wrote:
If it copies down a file, it
does NOT expect to find a resource fork.
What exactly does this above statment mean? Are you referring to
running
on a non-OS X box? Or are you simply saying that the resource fork
should
always be in a separate file from the data fork?
If you are using (for example) rsync on a MacOS X system to download
something from a Linux rsync server, the rsync will fail with a cryptic
message about some hidden file not being present.
This file is in actuality a hack in order to get the Macintosh forks
which go together.
I suspect other programs (cp?) will have other unusual requirements.
Also, a UNIX system such as HP-UX or Linux has no idea of what a
resource fork is. If I have a cfengine server on Linux and I want to
control MacOS clients..... how do I do it?
I supopse it is conceivable for the data to be hosted on an HFS+ file
system..
As far as I know, Linux doesn't yet support HFS+ and other UNIXes don't
support Macintosh filesystems at all.
Though, depending on the copy method, the rsrc and data forks may still
need to be separate files.
As for blessing System Folders, why not a "bless=yes" option for
Directories?
Let's make a scenario: Frank has a MacOS X lab with a Linux server in
the back running cfengine. Every night, the MacOS X clients download
all of the appropriate files (with forks), and update the System Files
and Finder files, blessing each folder as necessary. This helps to
prevent modifications of system folders, finder folders, and to prevent
the "loss" of a blessed folder.
Isn't this worth being able to do?
Here's another scenario: Danielle has a laptop, but can't boot into
MacOS 9 - so, she connects to a network, and runs cfagent. Having done
this, her MacOS 9 folders are fixed and restored, and she can boot into
MacOS 9.
Now how about a Macintosh System 6/7/8/9 client? :-)
--
David Douthitt
david@douthitt.net
UNIX SysAdmin - HP/UX, UnixWare, Linux
LPIC-1, Linux+
- Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, (continued)
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- Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, Dave Botsch, 2003/08/18
- Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, John Valdes, 2003/08/19
- Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, Daniel Pittman, 2003/08/19
- Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, Mark . Burgess, 2003/08/19
- Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, David Douthitt, 2003/08/21
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- Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, David Botsch, 2003/08/19
- Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, John Valdes, 2003/08/19
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- Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, David Botsch, 2003/08/19
- Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, David Botsch, 2003/08/21
Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, David Botsch, 2003/08/22
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Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, Mark . Burgess, 2003/08/24
Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support, Dave Botsch, 2003/08/26