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Date:      Fri, 1 Mar 2002 16:49:59 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
To:        Luca Severini <lucaseverini@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: get/setattrlist functions
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020301164830.94041D-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <B8A0209B.E5D%lucaseverini@mac.com>

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You probably want to send this e-mail to the Darwin Development mailing
list, darwin-development@lists.apple.com, since this is more strictly a
Darwin question than a FreeBSD question.  The get/setattrlist() vnode
operations (and system calls) are not present on the FreeBSD side.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Luca Severini wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> I'm porting a volume mirroring software, I developed years ago for A/UX and
> AIX, to MacOSX/Darwin.
> Unfortunately the way to store the resource fork and the Finder's attributes
> in MacOSX/Darwin is completely different than what A/UX and AIX used (files
> and folders).
> "More unfortunately" there is no official documentation about the two
> functions you must use to achieve that from a Mach-O software; I know I
> could use the Carbon API but I don't want to develop a real mac Application
> for now, I want only to port the old one.
> Does anybody of you know where/how is possible to obtain an exaustive
> explanation for those calls? (is anybody working at Apple listening?). Those
> are very import calls for whoever has to work with filesystems.
> Do anybody of you knows which of the values listed in <sys/attr.h> I have to
> use with get/setattrlist() to get/set the "Appleshare" folder attribute that
> prevents the user to move, rename or delete such folder (from the MacOS9
> Finder "Get Info" command) ?
> Thanks a lot in advance and sorry for my english.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Luca Severini
> email: lucaseverini@mac.com
> 
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