That documentation is incorrect and is scheduled to be corrected. -attribtuesOfItemAtPath:error: will never automatically resolve symlinks, and that will never change.
-Kevin Perry On May 28, 2010, at 8:17 AM, Charles Srstka wrote: > On May 28, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Tito Ciuro wrote: > >> The old statement traverses the link: >> >> NSDictionary* attr = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] >> fileAttributesAtPath:file traverseLink:YES]; >> >> The problem is that the header states that 'attributesOfItemAtPath:error:' >> that it's a replacement for 'fileAttributesAtPath:traverseLink:', but >> provides no provision for traversing the link. >> >> How would I obtain the attributes of an item that needs to be traversed >> first? > > You can easily traverse a link just by using [file > stringByResolvingSymlinksInPath] or [file stringByStandardizingPath] instead > of file. Where this gets tricky is if you *don’t* want to resolve the > symlink. Currently, the method doesn’t traverse symbolic links, but the > documentation claims that this behavior could change in a future version of > OS X, so if you need to guarantee that it won’t resolve, the only options are > either to use deprecated methods, or to use Carbon or BSD APIs. > > 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: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/kperry%40apple.com > > This email sent to kpe...@apple.com _______________________________________________ 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 arch...@mail-archive.com
