On Jun 4, 2012, at 9:00 PM, Fritz Anderson wrote:

> On 4 Jun 2012, at 8:53 PM, Michael Hall wrote:
> 
>> I was recently looking at some old finder api's. and some of it involves 
>> fields that are pretty much obsolete. 
>> I was trying to figure out which flag bit setting corresponded to the locked 
>> checkbox in File>Get Info. At first I thought it was the name locked flag in 
>> finder flags. It turned out insted to be the node locked setting of a 
>> different flag. Name locked apparently had something to do with files in the 
>> old classic System folders. 
>> Assuming this bit is now never set, and not contents unpredictable, you 
>> could abscond with it as a user field associated with every file on the 
>> machine. Set it to mean whatever you want until someone else has the same 
>> idea.
> 
> Um. This is satire, right?
> 
>       — F
> 

Well, probably not the best idea really. But similar fields used to actually be 
used sometime back in real coding. At least on machines I worked with way back. 
The OS even provided them.
Probably why it occurred to me. 
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