Re: [PATCH] OS X Resource Fork and FinderType support

[Daniel Pittman]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Dave Botsch wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:55:10 -0400, David Douthitt wrote:
> 
>> The version of rsync on MacOS X is rsync 2.4.6 enhanced for OS X by
>> Kevin A. Boyd. In fact, using this version of rsync causes problems
>> when used with standard UNIX hosts as it complains of missing
>> files... forks, presumably.
> 
> Yep.. I would guess that rsync is looking for the ._filename which is
> the resource fork combined with the metadata.
> 
> With the cfengine patch, we only look for resource forks and metadata
> if the config file says to look for them. So, "enhacned" cfengine can
> run normally as long as there is not a directory named "..namedfork"
> in the config file copy section.

Bleh. How about a 'metadata=...' option to the standard copy, indicating
that this is to update the metadata fork, or a 'fork=[meta|data|...]' 
option to specify which fork to update with this copy operation?

Magic pathnames are ... suboptimal, in my experience.

       Daniel

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