On Apr 26, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Michael Hall wrote:
On Apr 26, 2009, at 8:22 AM, Iceberg-Dev wrote:
Is it possible to copy a symbolic link (the symbolic link file and
not the item it references) using the FSPathCopyObjectSync API?
No valuable info was found in the documentation, the list archive,
google results.
The File Manager Reference
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Reference/
File_Manager/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/c/func/
FSCopyObjectSync
saying
A pointer to the source object to copy. The object can be a file
or a directory.
would suggest to me that a symlink file would be OK.
From what I'm seeing it's not.
My test case being like this:
I copy a symlink (pointing to a file that does not exist anymore) to
a destination. When I use FSPathCopyObjectSync, it returns with error
-43 (file not found).
Not sure if your searching came across "FSCopyObject - /Sources/
FSCopyObject.c"
http://developer.apple.com/SampleCode/FSCopyObject/listing3.html
but it might be informative to your question.
This is the solution I've been using till now. And it's a great
solution if you need to get a solution that runs on Mac OS X 10.2 and
later. But since I need 64-bit compatibility, I'm looking for
solutions that I don't have to support if possible.
I was into these or similar links for a problem of my own yesterday
but "the documentation, the list archive and google results" did
lead to a resolution which they often do. I wasn't aware symlinks
might be a problem until I started getting -1407 File Manager
errors that seemed related to these files. Since you are aware in
advance they might be a concern a little testing might give you a
more definite answer and save some searching.
(Fwiw, I eliminated the use in one place of an FSSpec since these
seem to be getting more and more deprecated these days and I used
FSPathMakeRefWithOptions (10.4+) in another place which looked like
it would default resolve symlinks and these changes seemed to
correct my own problem. No -1407 errors).
My solution so far is to go with FSCopyObjectSync and make the FSRef
conversion. I was hoping I would escape the conversion by using the
path version.
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