> On Jun 27, 2017, at 14:30 , Charles Srstka <cocoa...@charlessoft.com> wrote: > >> On Jun 27, 2017, at 4:17 PM, Rick Mann <rm...@latencyzero.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks for that, Charles! >> >> I wasn't sure because of the existence of the clonefile() call in >> <sys/clonefile.h>, implying that operation was different from copyfile(), >> but looking more closely at the sample code, I see that you can call >> copyfile() with COPYFILE_CLONE, which seems like it will clone if possible >> and copy if not. >> >> But there didn't seem to be equivalent calls in NSFileManager, hence my >> question. > > Apple clearly wants the clone feature to get used. :-) The ability to do a > copy the old way is still there if you drop down to C, but since I can’t > think of too many reasons to want to do that, it makes sense to leave it out > of the high-level API.
Agreed. Thanks for the code, and for showing the other techniques. In my case, I still have to support HFS+, and I want to do that with hard links. I wish there was an API to clone-or-hardlink, but I can do that. > > Charles > -- Rick Mann rm...@latencyzero.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
