Re: NSDocument and symlinks

[Rob Burns]

On 2005-05-22 17:43:36 +0700 Fred Kiefer <fredkiefer@gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi Rob,
>
> first of all, you should have put this report into Savannah. This 
> would make 
> it easier to keep track of replies. Not the lack of them :-)

sometime soon I'll do that.

> Yes, this would fail, as now the document is registered with the 
> resolved 
> file name. You either need to resolve the symbolig link before you do 
> the 
> documentForFileName: lookup or later in NSDocument 
> readFromFile:ofType:. But 
> first you should check the comment in NSDocument 
> loadFileWrapperRepresentation:ofType:. There somebody stated before 
> the 
> exception gets raised:
>
> /*
>      * This even happens on a symlink.  May want to use
>      * -stringByResolvingAllSymlinksInPath somewhere, but Apple 
> doesn't.
>      */
>
> If this is still true, we should stick with the current behaviour. 
> Perhaps 
> somebody with an Apple computer and to much time could try and find 
> out at 
> which point Cocoa resolves symbolic links, if they get resolved a t 
> all.

I have osx 10.2 here, and I can do some testing to see what it does, 
though results from someone with access to 10.4 might be more 
desirable.

Thanks
Rob