Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup on Mac OS X 10.4: /rsrc paths are deprecated

[Scott Lamb]

On 12 May 2005, at 21:23, Ben Escoto wrote:
> Thank you for the heads-up.  Can someone advise me here?  I am not
> familiar with OS X and did not write the OS X code for the most part.
>
> As I understand it, HPS allows access to the resource fork of file
> "foobar" through reads/writes to "foobar/rsrc".  And this is how
> rdiff-backup detects, reads, and writes resource forks.  If this no
> longer works because of a change to Darwin/OS X then this part of
> rdiff-backup obviously needs to be rewritten.

I think it still works; it just issues a warning. I haven't  
reinstalled rdiff-backup since upgrading to Tiger (should in the next  
few days...) but I just did a "cp blah/rsrc blah-rsrc" and it worked.  
It gave that same warning in system.log, but it also made a copy of  
the resource fork.

From a quick search from developer.apple.com and google, I couldn't  
find an alternative. There are some crusty old Carbon APIs, but I  
doubt that's what they want you to do. Maybe they're just encouraging  
people to stop using resource forks altogether. They're old and busted.

Doesn't really help here, though. As long as any application stores  
data in resource forks (Quicken!), rdiff-backup should keep them.

Regards,
Scott

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