On May 27, 2011, at 4:45 PM, James Walker wrote: > On 5/27/2011 4:35 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: > >> Comparing paths has its own set of pitfalls: even if you’re not >> concerned about symlinks, there’s case-insensitivity to deal with. I’m >> not sure what the best way is to deal with that. You could canonicalize >> each path; or you could convert each URL to an FSRef and then compare >> those for equality. > > If you were going to compare FSRefs (FSCompareFSRefs), you wouldn't need to > convert to a path, just use CFURLGetFSRef via toll-free bridging.
It shouldn't be necessary to go to FSRefs for this now that we have resource properties such as NSURLFileResourceIdentifierKey/kCFURLFileResourceIdentifierKey. For other usages of FSRefs, consider file reference URLs instead. Douglas Davidson _______________________________________________ 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
