getxattr(2) will directly access the current on-disk attribute value. Why not just use it as Alastair suggested?
—Jeremy On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Chris Idou <idou...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > I don't really want to be sending apple events to the finder since this is > a background app, and it could be calling it fairly frequently, and I > believe this can impact the user's foreground use of Finder. > > Does anybody know what the issue is? Mostly the synchronization between > Finder Comments and spotlight seems instantaneous, but then on this occasion > they seemed to refuse to sync. > > > > > ________________________________ > > > On Apr 21, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Chris Idou wrote: > > > I've got a program which uses MDItemCopyAttribute to get the > kMDItemFinderComment, and I was playing around testing it, by changing > > the value in the Finder and seeing if the value changed in my program, > and they ended up out of synch. It ends up that mdls returns a different > value than xattr -l, > > and MDItemCopyAttribute doesn't return the up to date value. Now that its > out of synch, updating the value in Finder doesn't get it back in synch. > > > > Is this expected behavior? Should I be using something other than > MDItemCopyAttribute to get the most up to date value? > > You should be sending an Apple event to the Finder: > > <http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2009/3/23/232927> > > --Michael > > > Enjoy a better web experience. Upgrade to the new Internet Explorer 8 > optimised for Yahoo!7. Get it now. > _______________________________________________ > > 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: > > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/jeremyw.sherman%40gmail.com > > This email sent to jeremyw.sher...@gmail.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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
