[Python-Dev] Mac questions

Tue Jan 4 13:56:34 CET 2005

On Jan 4, 2005, at 7:42 AM, Jack Jansen wrote:
>> On 4 Jan 2005, at 11:41, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>> And finally: Is there any other way to find the true spelling of a 
>>> file
>>> except than a linear search with opendir()/readdir()/closedir() ?
>>>> Yes, definitely. I'm positive you can do this with CoreServices, but 
>> I'm not sure it's portable to Darwin (not Mac OS X). I'm sure there 
>> is some Darwin-compatible way of doing it, but I don't know it off 
>> the top of my head. I'll try to remember to look into it if nobody 
>> else finds it first.
>> I haven't used pure darwin, but I assume it has support for FSRefs, 
> right? Then you could use FSPathMakeRef() to turn the filename into an 
> FSRef, and then FSGetCatalogInfo() to get the true filename.

I believe your assumption is wrong. CoreServices is not open source, 
and this looks like it confirms my suspicion:
(from <CoreFoundation/CFURL.h>)
#if !defined(DARWIN)
struct FSRef;
CF_EXPORT
CFURLRef CFURLCreateFromFSRef(CFAllocatorRef allocator, const struct 
FSRef *fsRef);
CF_EXPORT
Boolean CFURLGetFSRef(CFURLRef url, struct FSRef *fsRef);
#endif /* !DARWIN */
-bob