On Sep 24, 2009, at 1:38 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Ed Wynne <ar...@phasic.com> wrote:
A pity, sounds like the perfect use for an extended attribute.
Resource forks are extended attributes:
http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/the_new_resource_fork
Not really, they are just faked to look that way via API hackery.
My point was that xattrs have a key based data store that is tightly
coupled with the file. Why use a whole fork with a crufty DB in it to
emulate the same behavior, especially for a new feature? It just gets
worse if you consider exposing access to the crufty DB through the
xattr API as thats two layers of unnecessity.
-Ed
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