On Jul 31, 2013, at 11:52 AM, Jerry Krinock wrote: > On 2013 Jul 31, at 08:45, dangerwillrobinsondan...@gmail.com wrote: > >> what are the recommended search facilities for searching for things not >> indexed by Spotlight? Or am I limited to task wrappers or NSFileManager >> directory enumerations? Clearly that could take a lot of time and resources >> to search that way. > > Several years ago I looked into this and concluded that the fastest, > *reliable* file search on Mac OS X was still the ancient > PBCatalogSearchSync() or PBCatalogSearchAsync(). Does anyone know a more > modern API which can beat these?
I haven't worked with it, but I think that the searchfs() system call is what underlies those routines at the BSD/POSIX layer. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/searchfs.2.html Regards, Ken _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
