> On Nov 3, 2016, at 10:39 PM, Ken Thomases <k...@codeweavers.com> wrote: > > On Nov 3, 2016, at 10:08 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann <gerri...@icloud.com > <mailto:gerri...@icloud.com>> wrote: >> >> URLByResolvingAliasFileAtURL does almost the same, has no special behaviour >> with “/private”, and even can resolve an alias. >> But: only when this alias is the final component of a path. >> I.e. /path/aliasToFoo will be resolved to /path/foo; but >> /path/aliasToFoo/someFile will not. > > Paths "through" alias files make no sense. Nothing else in the system will > resolve an alias there, so nothing will ever produce such a path. If your > code is producing such paths, you should fix it, because nothing else will be > able to process them.
Oh, and it isn’t quite true that *nothing* else on the system will be able to process paths through an alias; old-style HFS paths separated by the ‘:’ character do resolve through aliases if they go through the old-style Carbon file manager. You can test this yourself by writing an AppleScript like this: tell application "Finder" get file “Macintosh HD:path:to:someAlias:someFile.txt" end tell Replace ‘Macintosh HD’ with your boot disk’s name, and the rest by the appropriate filenames, and you should get a valid reference to the file. Charles _______________________________________________ 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