On 28 May 2011, at 00:57, Douglas Davidson wrote:

> 
> 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.

I can't find these documented – link?

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