Re: Carbon port: setting the creator code (patch)

[David Reitter]

On 10 Jul 2005, at 01:56, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu wrote:

> I think these functions should follow the convention of existing
> operations on files.  For example, with respect to the default
> directory, error handling, and argument names.  Maybe the function
> name should be "mac-set-file-creator".  We can additionally think of
> "mac-file-creator" and "mac-file-type", or "mac-file-attributes" for
> reading these kinds of information.

OK, what I have now is

(mac-set-file-creator filename &optional code)
(mac-set-file-type filename type)

They throw errors if code or type or filename are bad.

> And more importantly, please care about BLOCK_INPUT when adding new C
> functions.  It required much effort to fill missing BLOCK_INPUTs that
> had been a cause of unstability in the Carbon port.

OK, done. Hope I got that right.

The new patch is enclosed.

mac-set-creator.patch
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