On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Gregory Weston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Ash wrote: > >>> Hi, >>> How do I obtain a NSFileHandle to this file which has a forward slash in >>> the >>> name to be able to write to this file. >>> Supplying the path to NSFileHandle with filename in quotes also fails. >> >> Filenames cannot have slashes in them. If you think that your file has >> one, then you are wrong. Very likely you think that it does because >> Finder or other GUI apps are showing it to you that way. This is a >> lie. A file which they display as having a / actually has a :, and the >> character has been swapped dynamically. The slash is reserved as the >> path separator and cannot be used as part of a filename. > > Nonsense. What's "actually" there depends on the underlying file system. If > the file is on an HFS-variant volume there can be a slash in the name (but > can't be a colon). If that wasn't the case it would be impossible to share > media meaningfully with pre-X Mac OS and other software that reads HFS. The > various file system APIs do the translation as necessary between colon and > slash. The OP's issue is not that the name doesn't really have a slash in > it; it's that he's using an API that expects POSIX style paths.
>From the perspective of userland Mac OS X code, what I said was correct. The kernel presents a uniform file API with the characteristics stated. That the HFS+ filesystem driver happens to perform additional translations underneath is an irrelevant implementation detail. Note that the colon/slash translation for Carbon file APIs happens in userland no matter what filesystem you're on, whether it's something like HFS+ which can store / but not :, or whether it's something like UFS which can store : directly. More to the point, from the perspective of both the Cocoa APIs and the low-level POSIX APIs that every other userland API goes through, filenames can contain : but they cannot ever contain /. Mike _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
