Subject: Re: disabling creation of .AppleDouble, etc.?
From: Patrik Schindler (poc@pingnet.de)
Date: Mon Jun 30 1997 - 04:29:40 EDT
> Is it possible to compile Netatalk 1.4b2 so that it never creates
> .AppleDouble, .AppleDesktop directories? It looks like it could do
> without (e.g. on non writable directories).
Why do that? If you'll write any File from Macs over Netatalk, Mac Flags
and other stuff must be written.
> Also, is there a way to tell Netatalk that a particular file system is
> mounted r/o on Linux and it thus should not bother trying to write
> anything to it (although from only looking at the permissions Netatalk
> this it could write)?
If you mount a CD-ROM or similar RO, FileFlags should never include write
permissions and netatalk won't write anything.
PoC
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b28 : Sat Dec 18 1999 - 16:25:18 EST