Re: [ft] Carbon-free fonts support for Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) compatibility

[George Williams]

On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 19:59, Benjamin Reed wrote:
> I was told it was deprecated by one of the Xar developers.
Ah. A quick google search reveals nothing from Apple (thanks) but lots of people complaining about /rsrc being deprecated.

If you look at /var/log/system.log you will see messages like:
Nov 6 15:27:59 george-williams-powerbook-g4-12 kernel[0]: foo.c/rsrc file access by /rsrc was deprecated in 10.4

On the other hand there seems to be another mechanism to get at it from POSIX
    strcat(filename,"/..namedfork/rsrc")
(using this does not cause a warning message to appear in my 10.5 system log). Said to work back to 10.3.

However, there are warnings that ..namedfork doesn't work on all file systems.

So my solution will be:
   First try to append "/.....namedfork/rsrc"
   If that fails try "/rsrc"

Thanks for the heads up. Perhaps I should read /var/log/system.log more often!