Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] alias test
From: Dave Ritter (dritter@newtimes.com)
Date: Mon Nov 22 1999 - 12:04:28 EST
all the macs that I have run my alias test on are using system 8.6...
none of them work
> From: a sun <asun@cobalt.com>
> Reply-To: a sun <asun@cobalt.com>
> Date: Sun, 21 Nov 1999 18:50:47 -0700
> To: "Dave Ritter" <Dave_Ritter_at_~CORP-DB8@newtimes.com>
> Cc: netatalk-admins@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu
> Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] alias test
>
>
> I thought my alias problems were gone with the 2.1.3 release.
>
> i guess i should step in here and clarify the issue. aliases will get
> confused with mac oses that are pre-8.6. that's because netatalk
> doesn't currently have a notion of a permanent directory/file id. the
> mac os alias manager happens to use that to shortcut aliases. in 8.6,
> the alias manager will actually resolve the pathname that's also
> stored in the alias file, so aliases will work if you don't already
> have a file/directory id dynamically allocated to it. unfortunately,
> if you do, things get confused again.
>
> oh yeah, there's some preliminary work in my current development
> snapshot for persistent file/directory id support. however, i decided
> to hold off on that for the full-blown db support that netatalk
> needs.
>
> does that clarify things?
>
>
> -a
>
>
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