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. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
