Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Re: os8, finder info yuckiness, and a fix
From: a sun (asun@zoology.washington.edu)
Date: Fri Aug 08 1997 - 05:24:53 EDT
While it's certainly a good call what's happening, removing the checks
will break the dynamic nature of the extension maps, i.e. once you've
opened and closed a directory once, all files will have their types
set. The "stock" file extension code doesn't do this, instead it
leaves all Unix files with a server-side type and creator of TEXT/UNIX,
changing the information on the fly as the client asks for it. That
way, if you edit your extension map, all the files magically change
type. It's even the case that changing the name of an extension mapped
file changes it's type...
erk. i didn't realize that people did that. i guess my patch was a
little too extreme. in any case, all that needs to be done is make
sure that the finder info sans type/creator gets saved and
returned. i'll submit something suitable in a little bit.
-a
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