On 30.04.2009, at 13:12, Alastair Houghton wrote:
3. AFAIK the Carbon layer maps them back again. Carbon's filesystem functions are implemented on top of the BSD layer, not alongside it as some people assume (OK, OK, there is the ".vol" special folder and there are a couple of additional entry-points that Carbon uses that are really SPI rather than API, but they're still BSD-level things).
In defense of those "some people", it should be mentioned that this has changed over time. AFAIK, in 10.0 Carbon and POSIX (I'm lumping together anything that uses POSIX paths here) took two parallel, but mostly separate paths, leading to fun bugs like permissions being ignored in some cases.
At some later MacOS revision, this was changed to have one common pipeline. Since not every description gets updated with every system revision, it's easy to see how people could get confused.
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